Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy is already the world's biggest and best. The Army, with 27 divisions under arms and three more on the way, has all it can handle at the moment. Of the three services, the Air Force is the weakest. To increase it to 161 modern groups (138 combat groups plus 23 troop carrier and transport wings) within three years will cost a staggering sum, between $90 and $100 billion...
Actually, the Air Force has a long way to go before it can count even 95 combat-ready groups. Just how far came out last week in testimony at a House Armed Services Committee hearing. There, prodded by the committee, an Air Force general confessed that the U.S. has exactly 147 giant, ten-engined 8-36s, the intercontinental A-bomb carrier which the Air Force ballyhoos as the nation's biggest deterrent to the Russians. Of the 147, only 87 are in condition to fly; the other 60 are squatting in factories, undergoing a $2,500,000 modernization...
...same position. It cannot stop an enemy bomber coming in at high altitude." This alarming statement came last week from an arms expert working for the Defense Department's top-level Research and Development Board. He is one of a group of arms men who spent months examining combat reports from Korea and evaluation tests at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Their conclusions: ¶ The World War II-model guns mounted on U.S. interceptors - a .50-cal. machine gun (developed in 1918) and a 20-mm. cannon (developed during the '30s)-cannot shoot down an enemy...
...Rockets now in production are wildly inaccurate. Pilots report an average of only one hit out of 40 tries at stationary ground targets. For air-to-air combat at supersonic speeds, present rockets are practically useless...
Into the free-for-all jumped Ridgway's new top information officer, Brigadier General Frank A. Allen. Though a good combat officer, Allen's record as a P.R.O. does not inspire confidence in war correspondents. As press chief for General Eisenhower during World War II, he was blamed for holding up news of the German offensive at the Battle of the Bulge. He also held up the news of the German surrender and war's end until the A.P.'s Ed Kennedy defied the ban and broke the story. Now, Allen assured the newsmen that...