Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eighth Army pushed slowly and methodically along the roads and over the ridge tops on the way back to the 38th parallel. Lieut. General Matthew Ridgway's men prudently refrained from pursuing the enemy pellmell, painstakingly mopped up his rearguard elements...
Methodical ground advance would probably not catch this 60,000. On Friday, General Ridgway staged Operation Tomahawk to do the job. A fleet of Flying Boxcars and C-46s dropped some 3,300 paratroopers of the 187th Regimental Combat Team (11th Airborne Division), plus attached Rangers, on the flatlands around Munsan, 22 miles northwest of Seoul and twelve miles below the 38th parallel. Under Brigadier General Frank S. Bowen Jr., it was the second and biggest paradrop of the Korean war; the first took place last October north of Pyongyang (TIME...
...Peking radio admitted that Seoul had fallen, but called it a "temporary withdrawal." General Ridgway had been wisely unwilling to accept the casualties of a frontal attack. Instead, he had put a bridgehead across the Han east of the capital. When the bridgehead outflanked the Red defenders, they pulled...
...central mountains, the Red rearguards put up more of a fight. When they did pull back, they left behind mines, booby traps, even dummies to man their abandoned positions. Hongchon, Pungam and some other towns fell to Ridgway's careful, crunching advance, which was approaching the important Red base at Chunchon (see map), which the Reds this week were reported to be abandoning. Of the captured towns, the most important was Hongchon, once thought to be the headquarters of the Chinese 39th and 40th armies and probable origin of the Red assaults on Hoengsong last month. TIME Correspondent...
...first time since the Korean war began, U.S. news services last week were getting incomprehensible, hashed-up field dispatches tersely ending: "Rest of story withheld by censor." Reason: General MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters had imposed a second censorship on stories already cleared by General Matt Ridgway's Eighth Army censors in the field, and had set up a board of ex-combat officers to run it. Under this sort of fire, Eighth Army censors had become tougher...