Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a Rock. The Chinese launched their heaviest blow at the Inje sector (see map), in difficult mountainous terrain where the front was held by ROK units. Hitting the ROKs has become a standard Chinese tactic, and was not unexpected by the allied command; but General Van Fleet did not have enough troops to back up the South Koreans in the west-central sector. He had done the next best thing: he posted a dependable, battle-seasoned U.S. division-the 2nd Infantry-on the South Koreans' left, and he had armored reserves ready to rush forward in case...
Commanded by Lieut. Colonel Jaime Polania Puyo, a veteran of 22 years in the Colombian army, the battalion has been training for four months in mountain country around Bogotá to get ready for Korea's rugged terrain. The troops are equipped with U.S. Army uniforms and materiel (paid for with Colombian cash), and have been checked out on North American infantry weapons by twelve Spanish-speaking U.S. Army noncoms...
...Florida orange grove took over his new command at a few hours' notice; but he quickly sized up the Eighth Army and its strategic and tactical situation. Last week, while conferring with a regimental commander on the battlefront, Van Fleet pointed with his big forefinger to a terrain feature on the map. "Is your second battalion still in this position?" he asked the colonel. The officer looked astonished at the Army commander's detailed knowledge, then grinned. "Yes, sir," he said, "it still...
...first place, China, even more than Korea, provides a type of military terrain with which we have not had much experience. I refer not to the fact that the country is big nor to the fact that it is heavily populated, but to the remarkable density of the agrarian population in the countryside on the flood plains of the great rivers where the bulk of the Chinese populace live...
...Japanese found that sending a military column through the densely populated Chinese countryside was a different proposition from sending one against an enemy in an unpopulated terrain. The chief result of this feature of the Chinese countryside is the tendency for invading spearheads to bog down, lose their communications and fight a war of rapier against haystack...