Word: southwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headed east through the long twilight of the 55th parallel-which also crosses Moscow-over the frosted spikes of southern Alaska, and rumbled southward to bore through the storms that lay down the spine of the Rockies. At 2 a.m., in the cold, sub-zero blackness eight miles above the earth, she found the telltale bend in the Missouri River on her radar, opened her bomb bays, and sent-not a bomb, but a long flash on her radio...
...stop a tank? The Germans, the British, the Russians and the Americans, studying the lessons of World War II, generally agreed that the best weapon against a tank is another tank. Last week, in Korea, Russian-made T-34 medium tanks were still spearheading the Communist drive southward. So far, the U.S. had no tank in the Korean fighting that was clearly superior to the T-345. Until the new tanks arrive (some are on the way), U.S. troops will have to rely largely on less effective weapons to stop the T-34s. Most of these weapons...
...first days of the war, the premature destruction of a Han River bridge ended all of Colonel Paik's hopes for an orderly withdrawal. At the head of his division, Paik marched southward to cut his way through encircling Communists. He does not recall exactly what time they retreated. "I'm a combat man," he reiterated, "I was too busy to notice...
...continued B-29 bombing north of the 38th parallel and effective raids on the Han River crossings, the enemy seemed to be keeping his supply lines in fair order. And MacArthur's communiques constantly mentioned the grave danger of envelopment by Communists from the Wonju-Chungju area, of southward thrusts from Communist beachheads at Utchin and other points on the east coast. To exorcise these specters it would be necessary to string across the peninsula four to six Allied divisions-which last week would be a long time coming...
...retreating South Korean cavalryman reined in his horse on a muddy road near Suwon one day last week, waved wildly at a U.S. bazooka team and shouted a warning: "Tanks, tanks!" Then he spurred his mount southward. The cavalryman was neither coward nor fool; he had already learned what many a U.S. soldier would learn in full and bitter measure before the tide of battle turned: the Communist ground forces, for the moment at least, had the better weapons...