Word: paratroops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prime Minister Churchill, who likes to be prepared, asked the House of Commons to re-establish the Home Guard. His reasoning: as the U.S. Air Force's principal overseas atom-bomber base, Britain might one day be the target of massive Russian paratroop attacks. Churchill's government proposed to recruit 125,000 unpaid, part-time volunteers as the nucleus of a force which could be expanded in wartime to 900,000 men. Their duties: to protect arms factories, airfields and fuel plants against saboteurs and parachutists. Each man would be issued a steel helmet and either a rifle...
KAMCHATKA PENINSULA: nine divisions (two infantry, one marine, one paratroop, five airborne); 300 planes, naval units including a submarine flotilla at the major naval base of Petropavlovsk...
...engage the enemy's army. Atomic weapons-guided missiles, artillery shells and tactical A-bombs-will help, but such weapons do not handle themselves. Men must be trained to assemble, fire and guide them. Ground troops with tanks and machine guns must be ready to prevent sudden paratroop attacks on launching sites, and to squeeze enemy battalions into tight pockets where atomic weapons can destroy them. Atomic depth charges can be used to kill enemy submarines, but a U.S. Navy must first track down the subs. It will take a strong Air Force to protect the U.S. and carry...
Umpires praised the skilled British-Dutch-Belgian "Blueland" defense. Withdrawing in order to gain time to mobilize, they kept their vehicles properly spaced, lost only a few units in traps. The Belgians did particularly well fighting off a night paratroop attack. U.S. units in the "Redland" invader force were commended for aggressiveness-their patrols ranged far behind enemy lines, cutting off two companies. All units were cocky and enthusiastic; black shiners blossomed on both sides. Young officers argued bitterly with umpires. Americans of the 2nd Battalion, 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment, slipped off nightly to deflate the tires of "enemy" vehicles...
...Honolulu, on the way back, the New York Times's Tony Leviero sent a story forecasting a "knockout blow" in Korea (last week's paratroop landing above Pyongyang). Leviero's dispatch was garbled in transmission, so the Times wired back to check some of the facts. Leviero never got the original query, and was burned up when Smith got a play in the afternoon Honolulu papers with a "knockout blow" story of his own plus a Page One spread next morning in the New York Herald Tribune, Leviero's opposition. Leviero cabled his boss, Washington Bureau...