Word: manchurian
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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...
What was not said was that the U.S. conferees wanted to take punitive action against the Chinese invaders, e.g., blockade China's ports, bomb Manchurian supply centers, supply and encourage Chiang Kai-shek and anti-Communist guerrillas on China's mainland. The British were against any such "limited war." They doubted that it was possible to limit war, and believed that most of their friends in the U.N. supported this view...
...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...