Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homeland, had been captured and forced to work for the Germans during the war. When the Russians swarmed back, he feared that he would be shot, fled with his wife a few minutes ahead of the Red army. The fugitives eventually made their way to Western Germany and found shelter in a U.S. camp for D.P.s...
...through and fanned out, threatening an adjacent U.S. division from the rear. Then the planned Allied retreat began. Once more, the bumper-to-bumper vehicle columns rolled south. It was a scorched-earth retreat: the troops and the aircraft burned every building in which the pursuing foe could take shelter...
...army's Civil Assistance Command and Korean officials, doing their desperate best to provide clothing and shelter, tried to persuade the refugees to go to southwest Korea, where it would be easier to feed them. But the refugees, remembering that last time the Communists quickly overran the southwest, insisted on going to Pusan, where the U.N. army was likeliest to hold...
...Gladewater, Texas, took command of 30 infantrymen who had been cut off from their regiment, led them to a defensive position where they held out for four days under unremitting Communist attack. When ammunition ran low on Sept. 2, Watkins shot five North Koreans outside his perimeter, calmly left shelter to get their weapons and ammunition. Although wounded himself, he fired on six other Reds who threatened to enfilade the American position. His back was broken by enemy machine-gun fire, but he continued to fire until all six were killed...
...station works best against high-flying airplanes. It can pick them up as far away as 150 miles, but if attacking bombers fly low, they can keep behind the bulge of the earth and get much closer before they are detected. With mountains or other obstacles to give them shelter, they are even harder to detect in time for effective warning...