Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next two months, when monsoon winds from the ocean bring heavy rain, thick mud on the roads and bad flying weather could be expected. Nevertheless, General Van Fleet's intelligence officers predicted hopefully that the Reds' summer offensive-if it comes soon-will be less heavy and easier to deal with than their two spring pushes...
Canada's 25th Brigade-8,000 men strong-went into action as a unit for the first time in Korea last week. It drove six miles into North Korea, captured a 1,500-ft. hill south of Chorwon, pulled back in orderly fashion through rain and mud when the Communists staged a fanatic counterattack. Said Major Dick Medland of Toronto: "We had excellent killing...
Coal Smoke & Mud. Everything had gone wrong from the minute the 43rd arrived at Pickett, 8,000 strong. Buildings, roofless and rickety, abandoned since World War II, dotted the landscape. Dirty green camouflage paint hung in peeling festoons from the barracks. Windows were smashed, hot-air heating ducts rusted and broken, the ancient latrines filthy, the mess halls flooded with water from leaky pipes...
...printed, but I suppose a lot of the tactical stuff gets play. Most startling to a civilian eye: the total destruction of some towns; the filthy, disease-ridden, starved condition of most off the Koreans; the GI's casual acceptance of battle and death while he bitches about the mud, the dust, the food, the officers, the hills that must be climbed, the months and months away from home; the politicking in the Army; and what seems to be the uselessness of this war as we go back and forth over the same ground, leaving a few lives behind every...
Eliot looked like a sure winner as the ball game opened. Behind Buzz Vonderlage's pitching, the Elephants took four quick runs in the first inning. As the second inning began, so did the rains, and the next four innings were played at a slow pace through the mud...