Word: united
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thames had lost their fight to evade the paternal embrace of Britain's National Health Service. They had wanted to keep their little (44-bed) building as a separate general hospital (TIME, Dec. 4). But N.H.S. insisted, for efficiency's sake, on converting it to a gynecological unit, which meant sending "the Vic's" general patients to the big, impersonal Kingston General Hospital...
...British zone for firing. The 4th will not find any area in Germany large enough for its divisional maneuvers. One of the emerging facts of military history is that Hitler's generals managed to train more than 100 divisions of his Wehrmacht without being able to maneuver a unit larger than a regiment. Says General Thomas Handy, boss, under Eisenhower, of the European Command (EUCOM): "I guess...
Canada's 25th Brigade-8,000 men strong-went into action as a unit for the first time in Korea last week. It drove six miles into North Korea, captured a 1,500-ft. hill south of Chorwon, pulled back in orderly fashion through rain and mud when the Communists staged a fanatic counterattack. Said Major Dick Medland of Toronto: "We had excellent killing...
...Training: 8 weeks basic at Parris Island, South Carolina. Further special training and/or unit assignment...
Strips of paper draped across a patch of ground near the South Korean town of Chunchon last week spelled out the words, "P.O.W.s-19-rescue." An Air Force observer spotted the sign and radioed an armored U.S. task unit. A short while later, three tanks rolled up to Chunchon to rescue 18 marines and a G.I. who were captured last December in fighting at Changjin Reservoir. The 19 had spent the last six months being herded from prison camp to prison camp. Except for the endless days and hours of forced marching back & forth over Korea's mountains, none...