Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week Douglas MacArthur appointed stocky, tough-minded Lieut. General Walton H. Walker as ground commander in Korea, with the title of commanding general of the Far East Command's Eighth Army. "Johnnie" Walker, 60, replaced Major General William F. Dean, who reverted to his old job as commander of the 24th Division, which has borne the brunt of the U.S. fighting in Korea...
Learning the Hard Way. Smiling, round-faced Colonel Paik Sun Yup, the division commander, reached out his hand and gave me a gold-toothed "How do you do?" in English. At 30, Colonel Paik is rated the best field commander of the Korean army. His younger brother, 27-year-old Paik In Yup, commander of the iyth Regiment, was wounded in fighting farther north after successfully leading his regiment out of the precarious pocket. The two Paik boys' are a shining contrast to the inefficient, sluggish South Korean commanders who bungled the early days of fighting in the west...
...Korean soldiers I saw at this front were happy men, cheerful to talk to. Looking like rag dolls in their baggy, mustard-colored uniforms topped by big U.S. helmets, they quietly manned craggy command posts or patiently waited behind the slopes of mountains to go into action...
...over Korea was building up. U.S. and Australian Air Force fighters and bombers hit hard and often at Communist troop concentrations and supply lines. Last week Major General Emmett ("Rosy") O'Donnell's new Far East Bomber Command sent World War II Superfortresses (now classified as "medium bombers") to drop almost 1,000 tons of bombs on Red rail centers and supply bases north of the 38th parallel...
Trygve Lie last week called upon 50 U.N. members to send troops to Korea. Cabled Lie: "The unified command is in urgent need of additional assistance , . . particularly ground forces."* When a reporter asked "whether nations should confine themselves to token forces," Lie answered bluntly: "No, I think they should give effective assistance...