Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...many years of off-&-on contact with various armies I have never been more cordially received and better treated by any service than I was by the Philippine ground forces. From the commander in chief down to company officers and soldiers encountered on a week's tour of Luzon's Hukland, I felt that I was with friends who on occasion could be very useful friends of my country (as many of them were in the last...
Afterward, Walker said to newsmen: "We will not give up an inch of ground that is not already lost . . . There's no thought in the mind of anybody in this Army-even though we might be so disposed-that there can possibly be a Dunkirk. It would be impossible...
Cabinet ministers were recalled from their holidays to consider a request from the U.N. for Canadian ground troops in Korea. After a three-hour cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent gave a summary of Canada's plans. The cabinet had decided to: < ¶Turn down the U.N. appeal for ground troops. ("The dispatch at this stage of ex isting first-line elements of the Canadian army . . . would not be warranted.") ¶ Send an R.C.A.F. transport squadron (up to ten planes) to help the U.S. airlift across the Pacific. The North Star planes, with crews and 200 ground personnel...
...decisions, the cabinet's turndown to the U.N. bid for ground forces stirred up the greatest reaction in & out of Canada. Off the record, Washington insiders called it "disappointing...
Fielder joined the ground forces in Korea, went up to Taejon. Last week, as the burning city fell to the Communists, a convoy of U.S. vehicles fought its way out, under orders to stop for no one. According to the driver of one jeep, Wilson Fielder was riding in the back seat with a G.L, when a burst of machine-gun fire hit them both and knocked them out of the jeep. Obeying orders, the driver said, he kept going...