Word: quemoy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certain as can be that the shooting which the Chinese Communists started on August 23 had as its purpose not just the taking of the island of Quemoy. It is part of what is indeed an ambitious plan of armed conquest...
...Chinese Communists have decided to risk a war, it is not because Quemoy itself is so valuable to them. They have been getting along without Quemoy ever since they seized the China mainland nine years...
Some misguided persons have said that Quemoy is nothing to become excited about. They said the same about South Korea, about Viet Nam, about Lebanon...
...midnight we were approaching the island and could clearly see the air bursts of artillery as Tatan, Little Quemoy and the south shore of Quemoy itself took their nightly lacing. Six miles south of Quemoy's shallow coast we dropped anchor, and three scuttle-nosed landing barges approached LSM 249. The sea was wicked, and the three landing craft had a hard time coming alongside. The transfer started about 12:30, but by 12:45 only half of us newsmen and 20 troops had managed to crawl down the nets and jump into the pitching boats. At that moment...
...landing craft finally ducked clear of the firing and headed into Quemoy's south coast. At 1:30 the bowlip slammed down, revealing a ghostly white beach. Communist shells were pounding over. We ran for it, and came smack up against barbed wire. Ducking into a bunker, we watched the second landing barge glide by like a sea monster. The third landing craft, carrying a group of U.S. military assistance advisory personnel, tore its bottom on an underwater barricade, and the U.S. officers, their gear lost, slogged ashore through neck-deep water...