Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Chiang fought the northern warlords, Mao became a warlord in his own right. On Chingkan Shan, celebrated bandit mountain lair, he joined forces with the local outlaws, soon merged them in his new Red army.* It was a guerrilla force, highly mobile, terroristic, levying an ever-expanding countryside for recruits and supplies, fighting not for the ordinary warlord's booty but for a Red revolution within the Nationalist revolution...
Three whole R.O.K. divisions have been held in South Korea for anti-guerrilla work. In addition Police Chief Kim Tae Sun has detailed part of his 55,000 national police. The U.S. 187th Airborne Regiment, which had no jumping missions last week, was patrolling the Seoul-Pyongyang highway. Attached to the 187th for anti-guerrilla duty were the British 29th Brigade and the Philippine contingent...
Though it is fleetingly faithful to some ingenious details of guerrilla operations, the picture plays fast & loose with military history. Veterans of the Pacific war may be anachronistically edified, if somewhat surprised, to hear American Guerrilla's naval officers speaking of General Douglas MacArthur with something close to veneration. They also may be heartened to learn that the Leyte landings were as simple as a walk-on. In the film's climax, the rumble of distant naval guns disperses a Japanese patrol that is closing in on the guerrillas. "MacArthur?" asks Micheline. "He said he'd return...
...American Guerrilla in the Philippines (20th Century-Fox) muffs a promising chance to do justice to an authentic saga of World War II. The movie was filmed in the Philippines, so that even a fictional treatment might have preserved a semi-documentary tang. Instead, taken either as fiction or reportage, the picture turns out to be as counterfeit and hackneyed as a comic-book adventure yarn, and not nearly so well paced...
Last June, when the Communists invaded the city, a group of South Koreans forceably carried off Pastor Ye under the impression that he was a Red guerrilla. By the time they realized their mistake, the Communists were in full control of Seoul and Ye could not get back. For over three months he waited anxiously in Pusan...