Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Hardly were the stand-or-die orders out of General Walker's mouth (see above) than the U.S. forces began to give more ground. Kochang fell, on the central front, and Kumchon, an important strongpoint on the Taejon-Taegu railroad, was threatened from the southeast. At Chinju on the south coast, after a heavy fight in which Communist dead littered the ground "like confetti," the defenders pulled back and two Red regiments rushed in. Chinju, 55 miles from Pusan, was the closest Communist approach to the all-important supply port...
...days after the first U.S. ground troops went into action in Korea June 25, the U.N. Security Council asked 50 other U.N. member nations to supply troops. By last week, the replies added up to promises of about 27,000 fighting...
...Eastern Germany, the Russians have about 275,000 ground troops. These are the men who are now on summer maneuvers. They are well trained, in tiptop physical condition, live as much as possible under actual field conditions, and are rigidly disciplined. They are organized into at least 20 divisions; about half of them are infantry and supporting artillery, the other half armor. The divisions are assigned to five armies, each covering, roughly, one of the five Lander (states) in the Soviet zone. Most of the armies are composed of two corps; each corps is made up of one armored...
...Chicago, Perfume King (Tabu) J. Leslie Younghusband, whose Florida wedding to Dancer Mary Uhlmann made quite a social splash back in 1937 (Younghusband slugged one newspaperman behind the ear, threw another into the swimming pool), filed suit for divorce on the ground that fifth wife Mary had gone off and left...
...right ankle in a cast, Vieira told his story: he was a weapons instructor in the U.S. military mission in Korea, had stayed on to fight the Communists. How had he been wounded? Explained the corporal quietly: "An artillery shell came over and the concussion knocked me to the ground. I started to get up and found my ankle was fractured...