Word: commando
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...ease with which small, fast-moving enemy units wiggled through U.S. lines in Korea gave the Army an idea. Last week it began doing something about it. In the winter-stubbled fields at Ft. Benning, Ga., a special school had been established to train tough, company-sized commando groups. As a starter, the Army said it would make up four companies of parachutists, give them intensive training in amphibious assault, infiltration, use of enemy weapons, sabotage and guerrilla warfare. As the five officers and no men of each company complete their training, they will be shipped out to become...
When Britain went to war with the Boers in 1899, the bookish lawyer became a commando general whom the British soon learned to respect. When the war was over, Smuts used both toughness and brilliance to persuade the British to give South Africa dominion status, and Britain's former enemy turned into Britain's enduring friend. Many a Boer called him "Slim [sly] Jannie" thereafter...
That night when the six-man patrol waded across the Naktong River, Correspondents Emery and Churchill were with it. Only for Emery was it an entirely new experience; Churchill was a World War II commando officer and renowned for his flamboyant courage under fire. All went well for two hours, while they prowled around in the Communist lines. Then, as they started back, the Reds opened fire and three mortar shells exploded among them. Both Emery and Churchill were hit by shrapnel; the G.I. between them was so badly wounded that he was abandoned. The patrol waded and crawled back...
Randolph Churchill, 39, greying son of Winston, wartime crack Commando major and more recently a lecturer and newspaper pundit, was off to Korea where he will report the war for the London Daily Telegraph...
Escape to Adventure, by Fitzroy Maclean. A World War II brigadier and Tory M.P. describes his prewar prowling in Russia, his commando adventures in the North African desert and his guerrilla life with Tito in one of the best personal-adventure books in a long while (TIME...