Word: southward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total of Communist airfields recently built or abuilding on the mainland across from Formosa. Once completed and equipped, the new fields will give the Chinese Communists air striking power over the Nationalist-held offshore islands and Formosa. U.S. intelligence knows that the Chinese Communists have shifted their bomber forces southward into Fomrosa range; U.S. reconnaissance shows that the Communists have amassed heavy military equipment along the China coast...
...guns or planes. A detachment of five U.S. warships, including the aircraft carrier Kearsarge, steamed into the Singapore roadstead on what was in fact a routine visit; whereupon the Red Chinese radio began to crackle with warnings against any attempted "American piracy." Meanwhile, on steamed the Aruba, southward through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, eastward across the Indian Ocean...
Communists Outfought. The Communists withdrew southward to Kiangsi and Hunan Provinces, boldly resumed their offensive while the Japanese were striking in Manchuria in 1931. Chiang alienated many a patriotic student and intellectual when he turned the Japanese invasion over to the League of Nations and prepared to turn his armies on the Communists instead of the Japanese. "If China ventures to fight the Japanese," he said, "the Communists will attack from the rear and chaos will quickly overtake the whole country...
This affray above the Yellow Sea differed from its predecessors in that it was the biggest and best organized Communist air ambush since Korea; also in that the Communists did not even bother to protest. Six hundred miles southward, in the storm center around the Tachen Islands, the Seventh Fleet took wary note. "I want tight formations, no straggling," one Navy flight leader told his pilots. "Test your guns as soon as you get into a clear area. Make certain they are ready. Remember this-we are not out looking for a fight. But if trouble is brought...
...Reds know that between Alaska and Greenland they can penetrate virtually unchallenged over Far Northern Canada (which has no system of defense or detection other than a volunteer observer corps of trappers and Eskimos). They know that southward, along the U.S. flanks, coastal radar can scarcely spot low-flying planes until too late...