Word: quemoy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Grand Rapids, Mrs. Alfred Medendorp heard that her husband, a lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army, had been killed, along with another U.S. officer, when the Chinese Communists bombarded Quemoy Island, five miles from the Chinese mainland. In 1942 the same woman heard that her first husband had been killed fighting the Japanese on New Guinea. Medendorp was his buddy in the New Guinea campaign. In the deaths of these two friends there was more than coincidence...
Again and again the U.S. had resolutely turned its back upon the other shore of the Pacific. Again and again came a reminding nudge or knock. Quemoy was no Pearl Harbor-not the stuff that touches off wars. But it was, perhaps, part of the stuff of which wars are made. It is an island held by the Nationalist Chinese-Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese-and the U.S. had every right to send Medendorp there as part of a military mission advising and aiding Chiang in what he sees clearly-and the U.S. sees unclearly-as a struggle...
Last week, commenting on the Red bombardment of Quemoy, Assistant Defense Secretary Fred Seaton said: "We are alert to our responsibilities in the area, and certain of our units [from the Seventh Fleet...
Last week the Peking bullyboys -according to their own account -carried off a small. Commando-type raid of Nationalist-held Quemoy, a 70-sq.-mi. bastion (not part of the Pescadores) that lies off the port city of Amoy, only four or five miles from the mainland. Quemoy bristles with Nationalist troops, is said to be heavily fortified with concrete pillboxes, artillery and interlocking fields of machine-gun fire. Peking claimed that a party of 40 Red raiders attacked a sleeping garrison on Quemoy. killed ten, captured one, withdrew. The occurrence of the raid was confirmed from Taipei...
...Chinese Communists last week seemed to be getting ready to attack Formosa. For two days, Red shore batteries shelled Quemoy Island, three miles off the mainland port of Amoy. Nationalist intelligence reported that four Communist armies had been moved into position along the coast under leadership of Red General Chen Yi, who boasted last week that his forces had been assigned the glorious task of "liberating" Formosa...