Word: yalu
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...drive the airmen mad. It siphoned off eleven combat groups just when the Air Force was straining to build to the 70 groups which it then deemed necessary for minimum U.S. defense. In Korea air power was forbidden to strike enemy supply dumps across the Yalu or to strike at the menacing buildup of enemy planes and bases. At the MacArthur hearings last year, Vandenberg stepped lightly around the MacArthur issue. But he managed to strike another solid blow for air power...
...While I was and am today against bombing across the Yalu," Vandenberg testified, "it does not mean by any stretch of the imagination that I might not be for it tomorrow . . . Hitting across the Yalu, we could destroy or lay waste all of Manchuria and the principal cities of China if we utilized the full power of the U.S. Air Force . . . But... in my opinion we cannot afford to ... peck at the periphery as long as we have a shoestring Air Force . . . The fact is that the U.S. is operating a shoestring Air Force in view of its global responsibilities...
Despite the fact that California is an oil state, Kefauver declared himself against the Tidelands oil bill. And he said he was in favor of telling the Chinese Communists to put up or shut up about peace in Korea, and of chasing them across the Yalu if they didn't sign on the dotted line after a reasonable period...
...lowlevel attacks), are no longer in production, and parts are hard to come by. The squadrons that fly them have had to cannibalize some of their planes in order to keep going. The pilots grouse about their dangers and difficulties, and they fiercely resent the Red sanctuaries beyond the Yalu, but they are very "tiger" (Air Force lingo meaning "eager to fight...
Stalin has swayed the American voter before. A week before the 1950 Congressional elections, George Gallup's poll gave the edge to the Democrats. But that very day the Chinese Communists crossed the Yalu River and turned the UN mopup operation in Korea into a bloody retreat. On election day, the size of the Republican victory surprised even Republicans. Whether or not Chinese intervention was timed to influence the voters...