Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korean war, Glenn flew F9F5 Panther jets, again on ground-support missions. After going on several missions with Glenn, Ted Williams, the Red Sox leftfielder recalled to duty as a Marine pilot, declared flatly: "The man is crazy," Says Lieut. Colonel Edward Lovette: "We called Glenn ol' magnet tail because his plane was hit so many times in combat...
Last week, as he gazed out over 400 members of the American Legion at their annual legislative dinner in Albany, New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller knew how Horatius must have felt. Though the Korean war ended nine years ago, it is still a hot political issue in New York: so far this year, the state's Democratic and Republican legislators have introduced nearly 50 bills to provide bonuses for the state's 482,000 Korean-war veterans or their next of kin. Nine state veterans' organizations, among them the powerful Legion, are conducting...
...would like to stand here this evening as a real hero in your eyes," he said. "But in all good conscience, as responsible head of this government, I come before you with a heavy heart to say that I must oppose a bonus for Korean veterans." Money was more necessary for state spending on education, mental health and care for the aged, said Rocky. Furthermore, the state was "strapped," and could not afford the $100 million cost (which would give overseas veterans $250 each, others less) if it hoped to continue "meeting its obligations...
...Korean war, Puller led the landing at Inchon. Then the Chinese Communists came swarming across the Yalu, and once again, the marines handed the toughest job to Puller. He was put in command of the rear guard that was to cover the marines' retreat in subzero weather from the Chosin reservoir. Ordered to abandon equipment and vehicles, Puller not only kept everything he had but collected many trucks that the Army had abandoned along the way. He loaded the wounded into trucks and Jeeps, strapped frozen bodies on bumpers and hoods, and set out to fight...
...Largely cut off in 1952, though U.S. procurement for the Korean war brought another cornucopia of dollars into Japan...