Word: ist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Major General O. P. Smith of the ist Marine Division, after the battle: "They knew all about us, all right, where we were and what we had. But I can't understand their tactics. Instead of hitting us with everything in one place, they kept on hitting us at different places . . . The only advantage they have on God's green earth is numbers...
...permitting fast change when the tactical situation required it-which was often. Last month, when the early winter caught many front-line troops without winter clothing, Combat Cargo offloaded other supplies and flew in tons of shoepacs, parkas, woolen underwear and ski socks. And within hours after the ist Cavalry Division had run into the Chinese counterattack of last Halloween, the airlift had switched from gas and C rations to ammunition and medical supplies. Sometimes, too, the situation called for a fast switch in reverse. Just before the last transport plane pulled out of Sinanju last week, one of Tunner...
...Fire Hose. Early last week there was still hope-among Tokyo optimists, at least - that Douglas MacArthur's abortive "end-the-war" offensive had only "temporarily" been halted, that a major enemy breakthrough could be prevented. The ist Cavalry Division, aided by British and Turks, was rushed to plug the enormous gap in the Tokchon sector where the R.O.K. II Corps had been shattered. It was like trying to plug a fire hose with a wad of chewing gum. The cavalrymen were beaten back 30 miles to Sinchang, then lost the town and fell back still farther...
Breakthrough (Warner) travels with a rifle platoon of the ist Infantry Division into the Normandy invasion, the hedgerow fighting and the Saint-Lô battle that launched the Allied blitz through France. From Twelve O'Clock High it borrows the problem of the commander who cracks under the strain of identifying himself with his men; from Battleground, the familiar roster of civilian-soldier types; from Sands of Iwo Jima, the technique of intercutting its scenes liberally with real combat footage and battering its sound track with thunderous explosions...
River under artillery fire. This side of the river a Communist patrol spotted us and yelled. We ran and we lost one man there. It was only a quarter mile farther on that an outpost of the ist Cavalry Division fired on us. They yelled 'Halt! Who is it?' and I said it was G.I.s. They said, 'One of you come forward...