Word: manchuria
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Though skillfully led and well-indoctrinated, it was still a guerrilla force, unable to face the Japanese or the Nationalists in open battle. The changeover to a regular army with decisive striking power needed Stalin's helping hand. Once more it was given, in Manchuria during the Russian occupation between August 1945 and April...
...forces steadily. They are 2,500,000 strong, divided into four huge field armies. Their rigidly enforced discipline is the marvel of China. They are intensively trained by vigilant officers, intensively indoctrinated by even more vigilant political commissars. The best is Lin Piao's army; it overran Manchuria and North China, now leads the assault in Korea...
Advance elements of the U.S. 7th Division could see the cold, hazy-blue mountains of Manchuria. This week, after capturing the crossroads town of Kapsan, the 7th pushed a tank-led spearhead all the way to the border. The G.I.s reached the south bank of the Yalu near Hyesanjin, a major Communist crossing point on the river's wide southerly bend...
From Siberia, which harbors the world's largest cold air mass, bitter winds swept down over Manchuria last week to the mountains and bleak fields of North Korea. Typical December weather seemed to be coming in a month early. Behind the front, the countryside was dotted at night with bonfires at which U.S. troops warmed themselves. In the fighting lines, the numbed and miserable doughfeet had no such comfort. Medical officers treated their first cases of frostbite and trench foot...
...Chinese Communist air force had a tactical advantage oyer the U.S. Far East Air Force last week. U.S. pilots were under strict orders not to cross the Korea-Manchuria border, or even to fire across it. Communist flyers, under no such handicap, were staging hit & run raids across the frontier...