Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Send substantial U.S. ground forces-at least five divisions, maybe more, to Europe, to back up our paltry two divisions in West Germany...
...Pentagon were reportedly dragging their feet. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson agreed that the U.S. was committed by the North Atlantic Treaty to the defense of Europe. But he thought the West Europeans should be happy to provide all the ground forces while the U.S., for its part, provides the threat of atomic retaliation against the Russian homeland. That was all the U.S. should promise...
...first time in the Korean fighting, General Walker had sizable ground reserves. U.S. commanders were able to launch early, effective counterattacks...
...Familiar Ground. At dawn next day, Ed Ewen's carriers, operating almost in sight of the enemy coast, were again filled with roaring propellers and shrieking jets. At 5:45 a.m. I went to the little ready room. Our Skyraider took off from the Showboat and flew fast and low for the Naktong line west of Masan...
...itself. Hills were still disappearing and new hills were rising out of the laboring earth. Peasants in the area sat in numb and sleepless terror, watching tumblers half-filled with water for signs of further tremors. At the slightest trembling of the water, they would rush frantically to open ground. At week's end New Delhi heard that the death toll was close...