Word: lsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midweek the Reds made their first serious effort to counter the new system, sent four fast torpedo boats out to intercept a pair of Nationalist LSTs. Before the Communist craft could reach their prey, Nationalist Sabre jets flashed down with cannon roaring and, by Taipei's count, sank three of the four. Angrily, the Communists hurled two waves of 16 MIGs apiece out to punish the Sabres. In the swirling dogfights that followed, four Nationalist pilots knocked down at least five MIGs, sent the rest hightailing home. The kills brought the Nationalist total to 17 MIGs in three weeks...
...China's best military men. It has been held down, and is still being held down, by the U.S. decision that the Nationalists should not have any offensive capability of their own. This has applied even to fuel and ammunition supply. The small Nationalist navy (corvettes, destroyer escorts, LSTs) is adequate for blockade purposes, but would be negligible in an all-out fight...
...Reds watched, LSTs began ferrying in big guns and shells. On Sept. 22, the 19 day of attack, the Communists opened a tremendous barrage-1,000 shells within an hour-but this time they got better than they gave. Outgunned and outshot, they shut up, for the while. Their 10,000 shells had killed some 100 persons, but had made absurdly few hits on installations of importance. It was not that Communist artillery was so bad; it was virtually blind. Contrary to standard procedure, up to Sept. 29 the Reds sent not a single plane over Quemoy to observe...
...Chinese P.W.s were still joyful. At Inchon, where grey U.S. LSTs waited to take them to Formosa, the P.W.s got a traditional Chinese celebration. Dancers cavorted on stilts, and performed the ancient lion dance, in honor of the great Chinese victory against the explainers; they balanced tiny children atop long poles; they gave the P.W.s fine silk scarves and paper garlands. Then the P.W.s patted the children goodbye, cast farewell glances at the girls in the swirling skirts, and moved off toward the waiting LSTs. Starting next morning, the 14,000 sailed for a new life on Formosa. They seemed...
Boat whistles shrieked, gongs clanged, and bunting fluttered from every sampan as the LSTs bearing 14.000 Chinese P.W.s from Korea nosed into the gaily decorated pier. Flag-waving thousands lined the 20-mile route to Taipei; firecrackers were so thick that the prisoners waving from their trucks were often hidden in haze. Premier Chen Cheng proclaimed "the advent of doomsday" for Communist China's rulers, and posters urged ACCELERATE PREPARATIONS FOR COUNTERATTACK...