Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matt Ridgway kept visiting his advancing troops, warning them not to extend their lines too rapidly. But the sudden rains last week made his warning unnecessary in most sectors. Marines attacking near Hoengsong had to slog through eight to 20 inches...
...western flank still stabilized on the south bank of the Han River, Lieut. General Matthew Ridgway kept U.N. troops attacking in the east and in the center. Last Friday U.S. marines drove the Chinese 66th Corps off the hills commanding the central Korean town of Hoengsong. Next day, the marines trudged northward through the narrow mountain passes toward the Red supply base at Hongchon...
...came out of West Point in 1917 with Army Chief of Staff Lawton Collins and Lieut. General Matthew Ridgway. Between the World Wars he served in China, Hawaii and the U.S. The Army installed him as professor of military science at C.C.N.Y. Subsequently he held the same post at the University of Illinois...
Under General Ridgway, a new team of field commanders has taken over in Korea. Top members...
Major General Blackshear M. Bryan Jr., 51, commander of 24th Division: West Point, 1922; well-known as a football coach at West Point in the '203; general staff officer in Washington, 1941; provost marshal general, 1945; chief of staff under Ridgway, Caribbean command...