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...pass them; had they done so the North Koreans might have caught several battalions between their fire and that of the defenders in the city's center. Barrow called for an air strike and an artillery barrage. For 18 hours U.S. planes rained rockets, explosive bombs and napalm fire bombs on the area in front of Barrow's outfit. First scores, then hundreds, then thousands of Red soldiers were seen running from their place of ambush. When the holocaust was over, Barrow's company and the marines behind them walked through the wreckage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Rout | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...colored canvas chairs atop fern-scented Mount Ammouda, smiling King Paul of the Hellenes, grim U.S. General James Van Fleet and several Greek army commanders awaited the signal for the attack. At daybreak, newly arrived U.S.-made Helldivers cut across the pale blue sky to unload their cargo of Napalm fire bombs. In a few minutes, the sleepy purple mountains seemed ablaze. At week's end, King Paul and his party could celebrate a smashing victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Kai Pali Grammes | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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