Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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None of these plans and good intentions would put a single U.S. city in shape to meet atomic attack, even if Joe Stalin mailed out a week's notice. Harry Truman's National Security Resources Board had been sitting on civil defense for 17 months, had yet to hatch anything. Its new director, energetic Stuart Symington, promised action by early September. But like Tom Dewey, the U.S. was beginning to wonder if that was soon enough...
Meanwhile, B-29s continued to attack the enemy's factories.* Pilots carrying out a follow-up raid on a big oil refinery at Wonsan (one of the principal fuel sources of the North Korean tanks), which had been bombed by B-29s the day before, reported the refinery "a twisted mass of steel." In three big strikes, B-29s had dropped 1,300 tons of bombs on the Chosen Nitrogen Chemical Co. at Hungnam, 126 miles north of the 38th parallel. The Air Force claimed to have severely damaged at least a third of the "buildings, laboratories, power plants...
...that their buddies had the situation under control. Blasts from U.S. BARs and salvo after salvo from 75-mm. recoilless rifles ripped into the advancing Reds, pinning some to the clifflike wall of the pass, hurling others into the roadside ditches. Within minutes, the first wave of the Communist attack had been shattered...
MacArthur called his one-day visit to Formosa "a short reconnaissance of the potential of its defense against possible attack." Acting under Washington's order to guard the island against Communist invasion, he promised "effective coordination between American forces under my command and those of the Chinese government." As for Chiang's offer to send Nationalist troops to Korea, MacArthur replied that they were more needed in Formosa's defense...
Died. Saly Mayer, 68, Swiss lace manufacturer credited with saving some 200,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps; of a heart attack; in St. Moritz, Switzerland. When the Nazis, in the spring of 1944, offered to trade the lives of Hungary's remaining Jews for 10,000 trucks (plus 800 tons of coffee, 200 tons of tea, 2,000,000 bars of soap), Mayer, representing the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, undertook a protracted bluffing game (the J.D.C. and the U.S. Government agreed that no ransom would be delivered), kept negotiations going until Hitler's regime...