Word: ist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon generals were saying that nothing could be done until somebody else (not they) decided whether the U.S. Army would try to stay in Korea. They were waiting for a clear-cut directive from the White House. It never came. Yet a firm decision was made, largely by the ist Marine Division. When the marines fought their way down to Hungnam through the "unconquerable Chinese hordes," and embarked for Pusan with their equipment, their wounded and their prisoners, the war in Asia took on a different look. The news stories, pictures and newsreels of the Hungnam action contributed more...
...dawn, the G.I.s and French counterattacked. Three times ist Lieut. Richard Kotite's platoon was thrown back from an enemy hill position. Then fighter planes dropped napalm on the Reds. Said Kotite: "We picked them off like ducks...
...office down the hall from MacArthur's own in Tokyo's Dai Ichi building, pince-nezed Frank Lowe squiggled the last line of another long, hand-written report to the White House, locked up a couple of presidential letters, and flew off to visit the ist Marine Division in southern Korea. Nobody questioned his comings & goings: the two-star general was armed with a presidential letter that authorized him to go where he chose, read what he wanted, and report what he pleased (although he had no command authority...
...Chinese were well into the northwestern sector of Seoul. Baker Company of Mike Michaelis' ist Battalion was having a hot fight. The last frantic surge of refugees spewed forth across the ice of the frozen...
...President Truman was to present the Medal of Honor to Travis Watkins' widow. On behalf of four other U.S. fighting men, killed or missing in action in Korea, relatives would accept the first five to be awarded in the Korean war.* The other fighting men so honored are ist Lieut. Frederick F. Henry, 33, of Clinton, Okla.; Private ist Class Melvin L. Brown, 20, of Mahaffey, Pa.; Sergeant ist Class Charles W. Turner, 29, of Boston; and Major General William F. Dean, 51, of Berkeley, Calif. Of Dean's now famed exploit in besieged, burning Taejon, when...