Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Are the French? These 150,000 men are tough and efficient soldiers. Their morale, considering the punishing climate and the terrain of jungle, mountain, swamp or flooded rice field, in a campaign against an enemy who consistently flees pitched battle, is surprisingly high...
...result of the fighting in Korea last week was that the Allied beachhead, although altered a little in size and shape, remained intact. There were no more wholesale withdrawals; there was still a good deal of defensive terrain and plenty of room for deployment of men, arms, supplies. The closest Red thrust to the port of Pusan had been flung back. Thus another week was gained for the U.S. buildup...
...come. At the time Walker spoke, the line was a sprawling 200-mile loop with the Reds a long way from Pusan on the east coast, too close for comfort on the south. Walker just did not have enough men to stand fast on such a line. On flat terrain a division is normally expected to hold no more than six miles of front; in rugged Korea, where routes of advance are channeled, a division might protect as much as ten miles...
...rugged hit & run fighting in forest and swamp terrain well suited for guerrilla tactics. By day the French control about half the countryside; and if they want to, they can penetrate where they will, though ambush takes its toll. At night, however, the French draw into their forts and garrisoned centers. Then Ho Chi Minh's men steal forth, terrorize peasants, collect taxes (two-fifths of a farmer's rice harvest), and run the countryside almost everywhere...
...East zone Germans. Airmen and service troops are frequently moved from one airfield to another to prevent accurate estimates of their strength. There are also frequent exchanges of personnel between East Germany and the Soviet Union, so that as many pilots as possible may familiarize themselves with the terrain and weather conditions of Eastern and Central Europe...