Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Elements (about 6,000 men) of the 1st Marine Division were preparing to board transports at San Diego. Waiting there for shipping was the 1st Marine Air Wing equipped with AD Douglas attack planes and F4U Corsair fighters...
Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, 56, Joy's top subordinate and commander of the Seventh Fleet, an "amphib man," in World War II directed landings in Normandy and the Philippines. Preparing for an attack on Corregidor in 1945, short, twinkle-eyed Arthur Struble was told that the cruisers needed to silence Jap guns on "The Rock" would be late. He said, "Let's go ahead without...
...American statements that were bound to undermine the Formosans' confidence in their government. On more than one occasion, Formosa's Nationalists have sharply and justifiably reminded the puny U.S. representation here that the statements of Secretary of State Dean Acheson and other Washington spokesmen constituted a direct attack on a government which was, after all, host to the very Americans in charge of disseminating these statements throughout Formosa...
...decision, thus undermining the Chinese Nationalist government in its back-to-the-wall stand on Formosa (see "The U.S. Tragedy in Formosa"). To take Formosa, the Chinese servants of the Kremlin had assembled a million tons of wooden shipping around the mainland port of Amoy. They were ready to attack the island. Target date for the invasion: June...
North American Aviation in Los Angeles, the U.S. had assigned $284 million, partly for 55 models of the first airplane specifically designed to carry an atomic bomb-the carrier-based AJ1 jet-assisted attack bomber. For production of the Air Force's long-range B-36 bomber, Consolidated Vultee had $250 million in Government orders. Lockheed had the fast F94 on the assembly line (see cut) as part of a $225 million backlog. A jet-powered fighter, the F94 has search radar housed in its ball-like plastic nose, can seek out and destroy enemy aircraft approaching through thick...