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...matter of the air threat, at least, the U.S. State Department seemed resigned to forthright action-if it was forced upon Ridgway. Assistant Secretary Dean Rusk said that if Soviet planes intervene in large force, the U.S. will attack their bases in Manchuria. In contrast to previous State Department attitudes, this was somewhat startling...
Said General Ridgway: "[If the enemy] wants to exercise his advantages by virtue of his superior numbers and his complete disregard for the value of human life, he may make a considerable penetration. But it doesn't give me any serious concern whatever. I am quite sure that everybody in the Eighth Army believes that if he gets a penetration we will check it and destroy...
...Ridgway had received new artillery, increasing his already massive firepower...
Said Lieut. General Matthew Ridgway: "Surrounded by this scene of earth and sea and sky, fashioned of Korea by our Creator, lie our comrades of land and sea and air forces . . . Proudly they served . . . We have sought with heart & hand to add for them what we could of simple beauty to this sacred spot...
...General Ridgway, the grenades that he carries on his chest glistening in the rain, stepped to the center flagpole. After a momentary hitch caused by a wet lanyard, a huge blue U.N. banner was unfurled, dominating all the flags of nations...