Word: combatants
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Barely a few days before, NATO deputies and defense chiefs had settled the sharpest issue: German participation in a Western European army. From France they had wrung assent to German regimental combat teams of 6,000 men each; in turn they had agreed to the French demand that these units be absorbed into divisions commanded by non-Germans...
Last week there was new evidence to support the military axiom that carefully cultivated discipline and esprit de corps pay off in combat effectiveness. In Washington, the Defense Department revealed that only 26 men of the U.S. Marine Corps had been reported "missing in action" since the beginning of the Korean war. This was about 1/174th of the 4,517 marine casualties so far announced. Army men "missing in action" amounted to about one-sixth of verified Army casualties...
...pilot in the cockpit of a jet fighter on a combat mission is a busy man. Besides flying his skittish aircraft, he must navigate, search for ground targets, avoid enemy antiaircraft and watch out for enemy fighters. No pilot has enough hands, eyes and brains to do all these jobs perfectly. Last week the Air Force told how it had teamed up with William P. Lear, winner of the 1950 Collier Trophy for aviation, to take some of the job of flying and fighting the airplane off the jet pilot's neck...
...Force does not maintain that the F-5 can fly a jet better than a human pilot can. Its purpose is "reduction of pilot fatigue," leaving the pilot fresh and alert for the climax of combat...
...novel, The Red Badge of Courage, and a handful of poems and stories, notably The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel and The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. Written when Crane was 22, The Red Badge was a brilliantly intuitive study of war and the emotions of men in combat, by a man who had yet to see a battlefield...