Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is still no word from the U.S. 17th Regimental Combat Team, ordered, to withdraw from positions on the Manchurian border several days...
...Dean Acheson's State Department was standing fast against a deal with the Chinese Reds. The U.S. (despite some timid souls in high places, including the Pentagon) was still pledged to destroy all Communist forces in Korea and drive all the way to the Manchurian frontier...
...Lake Success, appeasement was in the air. The British were in a mood to make a deal, and their phrase for it was "buffer state." Their hope was that the Chinese Reds could be persuaded to withdraw peacefully to the Manchurian border, provided that a large adjoining strip of North Korea was made into a neutral zone, administered, presumably, by the United Nations...
...winter issue before the first nip of cold, there would have been suffering. Units of the 7th Division, which had winter clothing, were fighting last week in 20-below-zero cold. The cold brought tears which froze on the men's faces. After a U.S. attack near the Manchurian border, medical officers reported as many casualties from cold as from enemy action. Only quick work by litter teams prevented those wounded by gunfire from freezing to death...
...wide Yalu. While making such a ten-minute bomb run on Sinuiju, 24 U.S. Superforts at 25,000 ft. were jumped by 16 Russian-made jet fighters-MIG-iss. Attacking in pairs, the Red jets, traveling at better than 600 m.p.h., began their dives high on the Manchurian side of the border, swept across the Yalu just long enough to shoot up the slow-moving (200 m.p.h.) Superforts, and ended their dives back on the Manchurian side before U.S. jets could catch them. There they stayed until the coast was clear for another pass at the bombers. In the first...