Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...North Koreans suffered heavy losses in men and armor, but they pushed on doggedly. The invaders widened the Samgyo beachhead to take Nonsan (see , about 15 miles to the south, then swung northwest to attack Taejon. The town and its airfield, from which U.S. fighter craft and hospital planes had operated, were under Communist artillery fire; the airfield was evacuated...
...week's end, Douglas MacArthur promised victory "in the shortest possible time." Earlier in the week, after the savage Red reaction to the U.S. tank attack, he had severely criticized press accounts of the battle, especially the exaggerated reports of U.S. casualties (see PRESS). He said: "Total American losses to the present time are less than 500, amounting to 42 killed, 190 wounded and 246 missing.-. . . American ground units in Korea are fighting one of the most skillful and heroic holding and rearguard actions in history. Their excellent peacetime training is reflected in the excellent combat record they...
...Angeles last week, Brigadier General William L. Roberts, former head of the U.S. Military Advisory Group in Korea, explained that the South Koreans had not been given any tanks, heavy artillery or combat airplanes because the U.S. was afraid that the South Koreans would attack Communist North Korea...
...Security Council to decide whether U.N. forces should drive north of the 38th parallel, but recalled that U.N. had repeatedly urged unification of Korea; 4) declined comment on whether North Korean leaders should be treated as war criminals, but added: "I am quite sure they started the attack and the aggression...
Like the 160 million, the 47 were most concerned about war and the threat of war. After careful word-weighing and the abstention of two members on pacifist grounds, the Committee produced a resolution on the Korean war. "An act of aggression has been committed . . . Armed attack as an instrument of national policy is wrong. We therefore commend the United Nations, an instrument of world order, for its prompt decision to meet this aggression, and for authorizing a police measure which every member nation should support...