Word: manchuria
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...ports of entry." Did this include airfields? No, the Reds said. To the U.N. this answer meant that the enemy intended, after the armistice, to build airstrips in North Korea (and repair existing ones) in order to bring his 1,400-plane air force, now principally based in Manchuria, closer to U.N. lines...
...MIGs are now based chiefly just across the Yalu in Manchuria. But in recent months, said Vandenberg, the Communists have made a major attempt to repair and defend three airfields 90 miles to the south, near Pyongyang. If they succeed in putting these fields into operation despite U.S. bombing attacks, they will be able to challenge U.N. air supremacy even over the battle line itself...
...still in our very early 20s. Yes, we're a generation who can't remember when a bitter war wasn't raging somewhere Why, the first newspaper I recall seeing was the Herald Tribune's rotogravure section with pictures of the Sino-Japanese war in Manchuria. Most of us never knew a President who wasn't named Franklin or Harry...
Tramping of Boots. Along these miles of roads the Japanese have heard
ominous -and recent-eastward trampings of Russian military boots.
Items: Manchuria, with
headquarters at Kirin. Former headquarters: far inland at Chita, east
of the Lake Baikal region.
This disease was first described by Japanese army doctors in 1939, when their troops came down with it in Manchuria (hence its popular name, "Manchurian fever"). The death rate then ran as high as 30%. No U.S. soldier is known to have contracted the disease in World War II or during the first year of war in Korea. Last June it broke out among forward troops who had been living on the ground...