Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ship, 175 more Thunderjets are being dispatched to Korea. These, plus 75 jets sent from Japan, will increase U.N. fighter strength at the Korean bases by 250 planes. The ten fighter wings on the peninsula, long operating understrength, are all being brought up to full combat strength. General Mark Clark started clamoring for more planes even before he left for Tokyo in May, and he was solidly backed up by his air commander, General O. P. Weyland. The maintenance situation has improved: whereas only 50% to 65% of U.N. planes used to be available for operations on any given...
...were raging in North Korea, and presumably further crippling the Red fighting forces. Moreover, the Eighth Army, which Matt Ridgway had turned into a first-class fighting machine, had proved by its "meat-grinder" counteroffensives that it could grind some 90 miles farther north to the line where the peninsula widens out, swallowing up Pyongyang (the North Koreans' capital, which they had lost once before) and some 15,000 more square miles of Red territory...
Peppery General Sir Gerald Templer, Britain's High Commissioner for the Communist-bandit-ridden Malayan Federation, flew in to London to report to the British Colonial Office on his first tour of duty in the rubber-rich equatorial peninsula. In machine-gun tones, he rattled off his news...
...sizable number of Malaya's peaceful Chinese colony sympathizes with the guerrillas, it is doubtful whether the British can wipe the guerrillas out entirely. The problem is to give Malaya's 2,500,000 economically powerful Chinese some kind of political voice without stirring up the peninsula's 2,500,000 indigenous Malays...
TIME'S correspondents in Korea are ready for anything. For more than two years now, they have been shuttling in, out, over and through that embattled peninsula to keep you posted on the war and the events that led up to it. Members of the Tokyo bureau, who have been covering the war, have also been sending stories on Japan's regained sovereignty, the prisoner-of-war camp incidents, the May Day riots, and Korean politics. Says Bureau Chief Dwight Martin: "The biggest problem is trying to figure out from one day to the next which...