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...making every allowance for the stiffening influence of the police state, and for an Asiatic disregard of poverty, it is still hard to believe that the Soviet Union, whatever the equipment of her armies at the front, could remain on the offensive with equipment such as this in the rear...
...were due to "commence" that evening. On arrival, we found 1,100 friends and relatives of the graduating class, some dewy-eyed, some not, who were awaiting the start of the five-times yearly ceremony. So we could dash backstage when we were "on," we took seats at the rear of the theatre. The lights dimmed, the curtains parted, and a portly lady, who introduced herself as Mildred Albert, dean of the school, made a few opening remarks. She described her institution, which offers a variety of courses ranging from modeling to make-up to ball room dancing, and, acknowledging...
...inspection and of a military "freeze" of existing forces. They proposed that: 1) neither side should introduce into Korea "any military forces, weapons and ammunition under any pretext during an armistice"; and 2) observation teams manned by nationals of "neutral" countries should inspect "ports of entry in the rear as mutually agreed upon...
Army & Air Targets. The air war in "MIG Alley" (see below) and U.N. air attacks on the enemy's rear went on without letup. Van Fleet's original order on ground activity was soon modified. Some allied artillery crews began firing at "any and all targets." In one night, U.N. airmen sighted 9,700 enemy trucks rolling south toward the front, many of them with their headlights on for the sake of more speed. The airmen claimed to have destroyed 300 trucks, only a small fraction of the enemy traffic, the heaviest of the entire...
This narrative of World War II might well be called "Tales of the North Atlantic." It is unusual among war memoirs in that its author is a bright, youngish (50) rear admiral of naval aviation with no intention of retiring-he currently commands a carrier division in the Atlantic and Mediterranean from the flag bridge of the Coral...