Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...control it to the shores of Asia by a chain of islands, extending in an arc from the Aleutians to the Marianas, held by us and our free allies. From this island chain we can dominate with air power every Asiatic port from Vladivostok to Singapore, and prevent any hostile movement into the Pacific...
Will the rainmakers be able to prevent storms as well as being them...
...divided the U.S. into five areas, each designed to develop its own independent tank production system in case of all-out mobilization. Such decentralization, the department believes, will not only have strategic advantages, but will distribute the economic load of mobilization evenly throughout the country, and help prevent large-scale migration of skilled labor to a few industrial centers...
Persistent Rats. One of the two remaining airfields in the beachhead was at Taegu-and Taegu itself was gravely threatened. On the central front, it seemed as hard to prevent the Reds from crossing the Naktong as to stop rats from boarding a moored ship. In some places, the sluggish green water was shallow enough to wade across. At night, free from Allied air attack, the North Koreans put tanks across on barges and hastily built log and stone causeways, whose top surfaces were a foot under water and hard to see from the air. Once, in full daylight, under...
...Marine action was part of a general plan to prevent enemy troops from crossing the Naktong River in strength. Jet F-80 Shooting Stars and F-51 Mustangs ranged up & down the river valley looking for enemy concentrations, went after patrols that managed to get across. Rainstorms prevented constant vigilance, but on one fair day the Far East Air Forces and Royal Australian Air Force fighters and bombers flew a record 550 sorties...