Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...know for many months after the start of World War II. It is a wonderful and thrilling thing to see, as I have just seen, infantry in action with the support of fighters from the Air Force, bombers from a naval carrier, and, if the field commander had wanted it, bombardment from warships standing offshore...
Savagery by Proxy. To attempt to win it so, as we are now doing in Korea, is not only to court final failure but also to force upon our men in the field acts and attitudes of the utmost savagery. This means not the usual, inevitable savagery of combat in the field, but savagery in detail-the blotting out of villages where the enemy may be hiding; the shooting and shelling of refugees who may include North Koreans in the anonymous white clothing of the Korean countryside, or who may be screening an enemy march upon our positions...
...true that many of the American civilian officials who were stationed in Korea before the war are there now. But I saw none of them at work in the field. We could have assembled and can still assemble a staff adequate to put our field forces in effective communication with the people of South Korea. Why haven't we done it? I know of only one reason. It is that our leaders still have not recognized the union of politics and arms...
...Have to ..." It is midnight and all around the hills are astir. Here a sharp burst of small-arms fire, there the flashing life & death of an American shell, searching out the enemy who we know are gathering within 5,000 yards of this command post. One of the field telephones rings, an officer of the staff picks it up, listens a moment and says, "Oh, Christ, there's a column of refugees, three or four hundred of them, coming right down on B company." A major in the command tent says to the regimental commander...
...public in a fine frenzy for World War III. "Let the people become used to seeing death-after this training it will be easier to send them to the shambles!" cried Moscow's voice. At the University of Michigan, said Moscow, "football players are often carried from the field straight to the cemetery." (Next day the Voice of America offered, in 25 languages, to buy a season ticket for any accredited Soviet correspondent who would like to see Michigan play...