Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Junior's terrifying new problem of survival was the problem of millions of his countrymen. For the first time a great many Americans were beginning to realize that the U.S. had become the target of a determined and ruthless enemy...
With his key men picked, Clay sent directives to state, county and city officials, telling them what he expected them to do. He set a target date of Dec. 1, by which time organization was supposed to be complete...
...about 50 of the enemy in a draw up on a mountainside. They were too far away for the .505, so Gay ordered an artillery barrage behind the village to put in some airbursts. The first round was right in range, but 500 yards to the left of the target. Gay gave the correction to the guns. This time the rounds were right on the nose. The Reds who could still move raced back up the hill to safety. Gay had his airbursts follow them...
...bombers are great for speed, but they have not done so well at dropping bombs accurately. At speeds above 350 m.p.h., the bombs were apt to tumble or fall erratically, go wide of the target...
...situation looked the blackest on his right flank, Michaelis got two badly needed battalions of reinforcements. Then, at nightfall, a minor miracle roared out of the northwest sky. A flight of seven B-26s, fully loaded with bombs, came winging in. They had been unable to find their primary target, asked a spotter plane over the embattled 27th Regiment if he had any job for them. He certainly did. The spotter guided the B-26s-with only enough gas in their tanks to stay in the air 20 minutes-to General Kim's 8th Regiment, just as it prepared...