Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists were getting starved for new victories, too. North of Taegu, a Red army corps of three divisions tried for four nights on end to barrel their armor down a poplar-lined stretch of road held by Colonel John ("Mike") MichaehV crack 2;th Regiment (see below). After six days & nights in this sector, the mauled Communist divisions pulled back out of U.S. artillery range...
...Last week, the men of Colonel Michaelis' 27th combat team tangled with a capable and battle-tested foe, a 45-year-old North Korean lieutenant general named Kim Mu Chong, onetime commanding general of the Chinese Communists' famed Eighth Route Army. Kim's men met "Mike" Michaelis' men at a road junction 15 miles northwest of Taegu. General Kim looked the situation over and decided to hit young Colonel Michaelis smack in the nose...
...trying to cut the road to Taegu," said grey-haired Mike Michaelis as he sat, bone-tired, against the wall of his culvert command post as automatic weapon fire zinged and buzzed like angry bees around him. "He's trying to scare me into withdrawing and leaving my equipment. Then he can come down the road with his armor. I'm just not going...
...Chong discovered what Michaelis' men knew-the colonel was a hard man to scare. In the face of Kim's enveloping move, Mike sat tight and blasted away with his expertly placed artillery. He had some bad moments when his artillery fire control center, directing four batteries, suffered a direct mortar hit which killed his best fire control personnel. But under Mike Michaelis' skillful direction the batteries continued to fire...
...with only enough gas in their tanks to stay in the air 20 minutes-to General Kim's 8th Regiment, just as it prepared for a night assault. Down thundered 20 tons of bombs. Later reconnaissance showed that the slaughter among the Reds had been tremendous. Mike Michaelis' artillery, with a nice assist from the B-26s, had broken Kim's drive...