Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Wasps & Head-Hunters. Until Koxinga's time, Formosa had been bedeviled by Japanese pirates. Formosans still maintain that the Chinese residents of Kaohsiung beat off one Japanese attack in the 16th Century by setting afloat a host of bamboo tubes filled with live wasps. The curious pirates opened the tubes, were so badly stung that the Chinese captured the whole invading force...
...North Koreans who were described by General Walton Walker last week as making the "last gasp," still had some wind left. Despite the fact that they showed marked signs of hurt from incessant U.S. air attacks, the North Koreans last week managed to mount a heavy general attack all along the U.S. beachhead in Korea. It was an impressive and dangerous enemy effort, the fourth major Red try in one month to achieve a breakthrough (see below...
...named Hideo Hashimoto, who had spent World War II in a Japanese internment camp in the U.S. Hashimoto, a right-handed pitcher for his regimental baseball team, had crept out on the edge of the ridge, hurled grenade after grenade with deadly accuracy at the advancing Reds. In one attack, Hashimoto was throwing grenades at Red troops less than 20 yards away. When he ran out of grenades, Hashimoto pitched rocks...
...overestimate an enemy who puts up a fight, but make no mistake about it-these guys are tough; they are just as tough as the Japanese." The officer supplied some specifics. "The Korean Communists," he said, "can start marching at daybreak, march all day and all night, and then attack in the morning. We've seen them run-not dogtrot, but run-up a 1,500-foot hill. Our men just can't do tricks like that...
Last week, despite an estimated 60,000 casualties inflicted by United Nations forces during more than two months of continuous fighting, the Korean Communists were still on the attack (see above). The great lesson of the Korean war was that the Kremlin knew how to train Asians into first-rate fighting men. If the U.S. and its allies did not learn this art (which involved political as well as military indoctrination), there would be many a perilous and bloody year ahead...