Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second battle-biggest jet dogfight in air history-35 to 40 MIGs fought 15 F-86s. After visible hits had been registered on two of the enemy, all streaked to safety across the Manchurian border. The U.S. Air Force did not know whether the MIGs were flown by Russians or Chinese. In any case, the enemy pilots seemed to lack confidence in themselves or in their aircraft-perhaps both...
General MacArthur counted about 200,000 Chinese and North Koreans facing his line on the Seoul front, 250,000 elsewhere in Korea, 900,000 more Chinese in reserve behind the Manchurian border...
...Reds drive south of the 38th parallel, then we ought to hit Manchurian industries, arsenals and power dams with conventional bombs. We ought to impose at once a blockade of the entire China coast and give extended aid to the Nationalists on Formosa. We are absolutely against any more concessions to Communism...
...National commanders of four veterans' groups (American Legion, V.F.W., Disabled American Veterans and Amvets) wrote President Truman a joint letter urging him to give General Douglas MacArthur full authority to bomb Manchurian bases...
...heavy equipment was being loaded rapidly onto ships at Inchon. If Korea were in fact abandoned, it could be done without abandoning the policy of punishing aggression. Mao's China could be effectively punished elsewhere-for example, by blockade and bombardment of the China coast, and bombing of Manchurian industry...