Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...commanders were informed that 80,000 to 120,000 Chinese were in the country around them. General Smith said that as soon as one Chinese division ran out of ammunition, another came up to take its place. The enemy was reported to have set up four strong roadblocks along the road ahead, and one officer feared what he called a "double envelopment...
Symbolically, the Combat Cargo Command had repeatedly provided the beleaguered troops with an aerial bridge to their bases. Day after day "flying boxcars" had swung low over the column to drop ammunition, medical supplies and rations. And eight miles back up the road at Hagaru, C-475 had set down on an improvised airstrip to pick up long lines of wounded and frostbitten men. Said Combat Cargo Command Pilot Lieut. James Wood: "The marines scraped out the field at Hagaru one afternoon while we circled over it." Every plane in Wood's squadron was damaged by enemy small-arms...
...provide the increased air supply required by the rapid U.N. advances after the Inchon landings, the Far East Air Force's General George Stratemeyer set up the Combat Cargo Command and called on the services of Will Tunner...
...Tunner set up headquarters at Ashiya air base in southern Japan, brought with him, as usual, assistants of long standing. Tunner's chief of staff Colonel Glen R. Birchard had been with him in Germany. Both his communications officer, Colonel Manuel Hernandez, and his operations officer, Colonel Robert ("Red") Forman, were holdovers from the days of the Hump. Says Tunner: "When we start a new airlift, we start in a hell of a hurry. It is a whole lot easier to start with people you know...
...last transport plane pulled out of Sinanju last week, one of Tunner's men noticed on the airfield 25 loaves of specially baked and blessed Moslem bread, the remnants of four tons flown in to supply the Turkish Brigade. The pilot carefully poured gasoline on the bread and set it afire before he departed. Said he: "I thought the Chinamen would like some toast...