Word: quemoy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prepared to go to the U.N., hopeful that a majority of U.N. members could be lined up behind a resolution condemning force in realizing territorial ambitions. (As Dulles was unhappily aware, the chances that he could win an explicit U.N. endorsement of the U.S. backing of Nationalist claims to Quemoy and Matsu were slim indeed.) As for the Chinese Communists, there were indications that they. too. would not mind seeing the crisis discussed in the U.N.. where they could assert their claim to big-power status...
Vital Difference. Fact was that Red China clearly believed that the more protracted the discussions the better. ''If necessary," said Peking Radio last week. "we will talk for five or even ten years.'' Like some U.S. officials, the commissars of Peking saw Quemoy as ''another Dienbienphu"-a position which could be squeezed off with grievous loss of Western prestige and military manpower, but which the West could not rescue without using disproportionate force. But the Communists would be making a grievous mistake if they did not also recognize the difference between Dienbienphu and Quemoy...
...these and a thousand similar peremptory devices, the U.S. had poured 5,000 airmen, sailors, and marines into Formosa in the four weeks since Red China began its attack on Quemoy. (There were already 4,000 U.S. servicemen stationed in the island when the crisis started.) Items...
...From a southern Formosan base, hardbitten pilots of Marine Air Group 11 were flying round-the-clock cover for Nationalist transport planes airdropping supplies to Little Quemoy. At night the marines used F4D Skyrays; during the day they relied on FJ Furies...
Kills & Convoy. In the midst of all this preparation for a big war, the nasty little war went on unabated. Thanks to new convoy tactics, things were looking up on the cratered beaches of besieged Quemoy. Every day but one last week at least one Nationalist LST lumbered out from southern Formosa to the waters off Quemoy, there disgorged a flock of amphibious LVTs (Landing Vehicles, Tracked), which churned into the beach and quickly unloaded their cargoes. Small and elusive, the LVTs moved through the inevitable Communist artillery barrage with relative impunity...