Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allied intelligence had reported four to six North Korean divisions building up west of the Naktong. Despite saturation bombing of the area by B-29s (see The Air War), the enemy divisions mounted a massive (30,000 men) and skillful attack from a jump-off point northeast of the target area and smashed due south, capturing Kunwi and Kumhwa, and pushing back the South Korean ist and 6th Divisions. But the courageous South Koreans managed to regroup. They were reinforced by the 27th ("Wolfhound") Regiment of the U.S. 25th Division, which was hurried to the scene all the way from...
Next day, Rosie O'Donnell's Superfortresses went out and did their best. In two hours over the target, the Superforts dropped 850 tons of bombs on an enemy area 7,000 yards wide and 13,100 yards long. Air Force planners had worked out a bombing pattern of one bomb to each five acres...
...week the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense issued a 456-page volume, The Effects of Atomic Weapons* which gives the first official answers to some of these questions. In it are the ABCs of atomic disaster which every civil-defense planner-and every dweller in a target area-should know: what an atomic attack would mean, and what to do about...
...Aside from military installations, they are the great cities with massed industry such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Los Angeles. Washington is another obvious target. Small cities (below 100,000 pop.) are unlikely targets unless they house a plant making critical war supplies (bomb-sights, roller bearings, "peanut" tubes for proximity fuses...
...take years and cost billions to disperse industries, put key plants underground, build huge, deep shelters for city dwellers. But local civil defense units can do plenty now. Civil defense headquarters and many of the police and fire-fighting forces should be scattered around the edges of a likely target area, not huddled in the middle. Emergency first-aid squads should be spotted everywhere. They will need an ocean of blood, plasma and plasma substitutes for transfusions. They will need a mountain of bandages to dress burns and other injuries. Buildings such as schools should be set aside as emergency...