Word: yalu
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...Alley." U.S. jet pilots have their own name for the northwestern corner of Korea, where the MIGs have been darting back & forth from their sanctuaries beyond the Yalu. The name: "MIG Alley." Two days after Bertram's victory, speeding up the alley to hit the Red airfield at Sinuiju, 33 U.S. F-84 Thunderjets fought a screaming series of dogfights with MIGs...
...enabling U.N. troops to carry their fight to the Chinese mainland would be outweighed by our inability to open negotiations for a Far Eastern settlement. At best, we could obtain an armed peace with a large American army required to keep the Chinese on the other side of the Yalu River; at worst, a U.N. evacuation of Korea or the start of world...
...that it could not move until U.N. gave the word. So the U.S. stood with one hand behind its back, waging a war that wasn't a war against an enemy who was not quite an enemy, who was inviolate as long as he stood north of the Yalu River...
...Icicles. General Lowe's reports were likely to be written any place from a billet in Pusan to a 6-29 over the Yalu River. And they were likely to cover anything from the use of tactical aircraft to the problems of the individual footslogger. In the evacuation of Hungnam, Lowe came out in the last wave. There he saw a soldier accidentally shot in the foot by a careless machine gunner. Aware that the G.I. might be accused of shooting himself in the classic method of avoiding combat, General Lowe bustled up. "My name is Frank Lowe," said...
...wait for it: they patrolled vigorously to keep track of enemy movements and positions, and they improved their own positions with minefields, barbed wire, better combat groupings. Allied aircraft, including B-29s, were out in force, chopping at the enemy and his supply lines from the parallel to the Yalu...