Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...43rd, a National Guard outfit from Connecticut, Vermont and Rhode Island, had left New England last September filled with high patriotism and thoughts of past glory (four Presidential Unit Citations, 987 Silver Stars, 75 D.S.C.s and two Congressional Medals of Honor in the Pacific area in World War II). On paper, it figured to be a good division. More than 70% of its officers had combat experience, 74% of the men were high-school graduates, 18.4% had attended college, 90% of the division was under...
...Army last week. When the battered Chinese Reds ran out of steam in the second phase of their futile spring offensive, they acted as though Van Fleet might be ceremonious and give them a breathing spell. Instead he attacked, and when the Reds withdrew, he chased them and destroyed unit after unit...
...they cut off an estimated 60,000 Chinese from escape by road. Most of them would probably filter out along tortuous mountain trails, but could take almost no equipment with them. The enemy had already abandoned huge caches of arms and other supplies. On the Imjin River, a U.N. unit came across a Chinese dump containing 200 machine guns and several hundred tons of ammunition, some of it previously captured from U.S. forces...
Last September, after studying railroad construction during his basic training period, Wang was made a platoon leader in an artillery unit of General Tsung Tsu-yu's army. It was a fairly well equipped outfit of between 20,000 and 30,000 men. Each company had 50 or 60 rifles with 120 rounds per rifle, ten or twelve submachine guns with 200 rounds, two 60-mm. mortars with 30 or 40 rounds, and 15 antitank grenades. Each man had four hand grenades...
...Training: 6 to 9 weeks basic at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, or Sampson Air Force Base, Geneva, New York. Then 4 to 52 weeks specialized training, and final unit assignment...