Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...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...
...troops [in Korea] are bound to the roads because their vehicles cannot negotiate the terrain off the roads. Even the movement of our foot soldiers is restricted . .. because supplies must be brought to them by vehicles. Thus, the enemy is able to advance in other areas, infiltrating and outflanking . . . With a proper complement of mounted units, cavalry, pack artillery and pack trains, because of their great cross-country mobility, the enemy infiltration and flank attacks could have been checked or prevented...
...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...
Said Bradley: "That was the purpose of this ... to call his attention to the fact that from here it looked like they were exposed." MacArthur had replied that he could not do otherwise; besides, the terrain was such that the enemy could not take advantage of the X Corps' position...