Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...warning; there is nothing they can do, anyhow. But if the bomb bursts a mile or more away, it gives its own warning: the 100-sun glare of the fire ball. Then, says AEC, don't look-duck. If you are in the open, drop to the ground and curl up so as to cover your arms and hands, face and neck as much as possible. Even paper or cloth will cut down flash burns; stepping into a shadow may reduce heat radiation below the danger point...
...dropping from heat exhaustion. Some marines were sent to relieve an infantry company which was cut off and being supplied with ammunition and water by air drop. Some of the dropped material fell too far away to recover; some of the water containers burst when they hit the ground...
Finally, while the marines reached Kosong on the south and dug in on the far side, the 5th and 35th regimental teams joined forces and stopped on high ground four miles east of Chinju. This was revealed as their objective. It was a logical anchor-if it could be held-for the left flank of the Allied beachhead in Korea...
...broken bridge and enemy ambushes, a U.S. armored rescue force arrived, led by Brigadier General J. Sladen Bradley, a tough fighter who rides into battle in his undershirt. But when Bradley got there, the Reds were in the town of Pohang, a burning ruin. Southeast of the town, ground crews, clerks and cooks were still defending the airstrip against the enemy. This week the Air Force evacuated its planes. The loss of the field-perhaps only temporary-was a serious blow to U.S. airpower in Korea...
Already, though still outnumbered, we have the greater weight of arms, on the ground and in the air and at sea. We know how to use and coordinate the arms, as we did not 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...