Word: counterattacks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...required it-which was often. Last month, when the early winter caught many front-line troops without winter clothing, Combat Cargo offloaded other supplies and flew in tons of shoepacs, parkas, woolen underwear and ski socks. And within hours after the ist Cavalry Division had run into the Chinese counterattack of last Halloween, the airlift had switched from gas and C rations to ammunition and medical supplies. Sometimes, too, the situation called for a fast switch in reverse. Just before the last transport plane pulled out of Sinanju last week, one of Tunner's men noticed on the airfield...
Attack. In Korea General MacArthur took the bull by the horns and threw seven divisions into an all-out drive to clear North Korea. The Chinese met the U.N. offensive with a heavy counterattack (see WAR IN ASIA). If Mao Tse-tung hoped to blackmail the U.S. and U.N. into giving him i) U.N. membership, 2) Formosa, he had to maintain a strong position in Korea for at least the next two or three weeks while his delegation was negotiating at Lake Success. The cue for U.S. delegates in the U.N. was to play for time, enter into no negotiations...
...next night the Reds staged a furious counterattack, heralded by bugling, whistling, and the brazen clang of cymbals which dismally reminded the G.I.s of the surprise Chinese attack in early November. The South Koreans lost all of their ground north of Tokchon, and the town as well. Said a U.S. officer: "We can only assume that the R.O.K. II Corps [6th, 7th and 8th Divisions] disintegrated." The 1st Cavalry Division had to be rushed up to prevent a breakthrough. One company of the 25th Division was overrun ("There's damned little of that company left," the assistant division commander...
...Wheels. Against this bitter, heavily financed and almost anonymous assault Taft had adopted the only practical strategy. It was to counterattack. By last week his fight for re-election and political survival had become the liveliest battle in the 1950 campaign. He had started his counterstroke a year ago, after Labor Day, campaigned until January, resumed the battle again last August. The 61-year-old Taft acted as though he were determined to show his face to every man, woman & child in the state. Occasionally, he went in a Beechcraft plane, piloted by his second cousin, David Ingalls, the Navy...
Last Gasp. In the south, Walker on Aug. 7 mounted the first sustained U.S. counterattack of the war, to drive the enemy back from his disquieting proximity to Pusan. General Craig's marines joined this "spoiling attack," but Walker pulled them out after they had helped to upset the enemy. He had to make shift with what troops were already at hand, shuttling them from one crisis to another. The next reserves due to arrive-the bulk of the 1st Marine Division from the U.S. and the 7th Infantry from Japan-were earmarked for Operation Chromite, the invasion...