Word: armed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...different. The word out of Korea and out of Washington was that MacArthur and the marines were now old buddies. MacArthur had been heard to say that there are no finer troops on earth than the marines, and was giving all his support to the Marines' air arm, which a year ago, in the integration fight, was battling for its life. At his insistence, high Army brass had even begun a fight to take tactical aviation away from the Air Force and put it back in the Army, so that it would be coordinated with ground forces...
...Wonsan, U.S. Marines were moving south to reinforce the battered spearhead near Kojo, and a battalion of R.O.K. Marines had landed below Kojo to form the southern arm of a pincers closing in on the "Diamond Mountain Gang." Other U.S. Marines were pushing north from Wonsan toward Hamhung. At Hamhung the Marines might face a bitter fight to keep open supply lines to the R.O.K. I Corps (the 3rd and Capitol Divisions) and to the U.S. 7th Infantry Division, which had completed an unopposed landing at Iwon, 80 miles up the east coast from Hamhung. Originally scheduled to come ashore...
With the money, the French would speed equipment to their forces in Indo-China, and build up inside their own country an army which would bear the first brunt of any Russian attack in Western Europe. They would fully equip five existing divisions with U.S. arms, and would call up and arm four new divisions with U.S. money. And they would equip another division-the tenth-out of their own pockets...
West Point's Coach Earl Blaik, boss of the best college football team in the U.S., has long had views of his own about the game as played by the professional football teams. Last week he tucked his views under his arm and rammed the pros' line head...
...this is obviously Utopian and impossible," he continued. "Therefore, I do not think individual scientists have the right to impose gag rules upon themselves in this respect, particularly at a time when our government feels it is in the best interest of freedom and peace to arm the nation...