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...flying, slow (85 to 95 m.p.h.) 'copters-also known as "whirlybirds," "egg beaters," "windmills"-would be sitting ducks against hostile fighter planes, or, over flat terrain, against determined antiaircraft fire. But in Korea, the U.N. controls the air over the front lines, and the same mountains that make the 'copters so useful enable them to hug the valleys and screen themselves behind ridgelines. They have proved their versatility. For months they have been used as flying ambulances, as aerial telephone-wire layers, for command tours of the front, for quick shipments of emergency supplies and weapons. Emboldened, marines...
...aircraft and atomic weapons, prop-driven planes like the famed F51 Mustang would prove too slow, too vulnerable to interception by enemy jets unless heavily and expensively escorted. The jets themselves could not maneuver fast enough for accurate low-level support work except in relatively flat terrain. Finally, said the Air Force, any "inhabited" plane, no matter how fast, stood a good chance of being caught in the fiery blast of a tactical atom bomb dropped from low altitude...
...enemy's big push, if it comes in the next week or two, will probably be launched in the flatter terrain of the west. From the central mountains to the U.N.'s western anchor on the Imjin, troops and unit commanders braced themselves every day and every night...
...been part of a U.N. plane, but it could not have been part of a napalm bomb, since the casings are not made with flush-riveting. The scorched areas were entirely too small to have been caused by a napalm bomb, which burns up thousands of square feet of terrain. The Chinese soldier gave the show away when he said that the attacking plane had its headlights on; no U.N. air unit attacks with lights on at night. After first checking the whereabouts of every U.N. plane that night, Matt Ridgway denounced the affair as a "frame-up" and scorned...
...this kind of terrain it is almost impossible to achieve a pursuit of destruction without cavalry which can advance swiftly across country in a pursuit of interception as achieved by Field Marshal Lord Allenby [in the 1917-18 Palestine campaign] . . . General Lucian Truscott [commander, 3rd Infantry Division, Italian campaign] stated that with cavalry for pursuit, he believed he could have achieved [a faster] victory in Italy . . . The late General Patton said, "In almost any conceivable theater of operations, situations arise where the presence of horse cavalry, in a ratio of a division to an army, will be of vital moment...