Word: keane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Brigadier General Jefferson Randolph Kean,† 90, U.S. Army surgeon who took part in wars against Sioux, Spanish and Germans, helped conquer yellow ever in turn-of-the-century Cuba, helped reate the U.S. Army's Medical Reserve "orps; in Washington...
...Major General William B. Kean, commander of the U.S. 25th Division in Korea...
...south-coast flank, where the enemy's chewed-up 6th Division had been reinforced, the Reds quickly recovered from Task Force Kean's "spoiling attack" (TIME, Aug. 21) and hammered again at the approaches to Masan, the main gateway to Pusan. But this time, no overly expensive spoiling attack was needed to save Pusan. The 5th Regimental Combat Team and the 24th Regiment (the 25th Division's crack Negro outfit) struggled valiantly for upland vantage points called Battle Mountain and Sobuk Ridge. Half a dozen times the heights changed hands. At one stage the doughfeet were described...
...task force is named for its commander, Major General William B. Kean of the 25th Infantry Division...
...Task Force Kean"* (the 35th Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division, the 5th Regimental Combat Team and elements of the 1st Marine Division which landed last fortnight) jumped off, Negro units holding a flanking ridge were due to be relieved by marines. But alert North Koreans slipped in, beat back the marines, brought up machine guns and artillery, opened fire on the vehicle-crammed road and on U.S. artillery positions and command posts...