Morale was nonexistent. When the 3 star general commander on the ground was killed in a vehicle accident, the army sent a new 3 star, Matthew B. Ridgway. In just a matter of weeks he turned the situation around and started on the offense. To do so he fired colonels, one, two, and...
On the day before, General Walker was killed in a motor vehicle accident while traveling north from Seoul toward the front. Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway hurriedly flew from Washington to assume command of the Eighth Army. After conferring in Tokyo with MacArthur, who instructed General Ridgway ...
Maybe it was no accident, the Shima Hospital was at the epicenter of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. There are many unanswered questions to this day as to why did German Jesuits come in Japan in 1921, along with so many other German designers!? Speculation: I never thought about it until now...
The Light Tank M24 (known as the Chaffee) first entered combat in the ETOUSA by accident with the 740th Tank Battalion in December 1944, as was related above. Others went to the 759th Light Tank Battalion, and then, as available, to the light tank companies of the armored divisions and...
a vapor or gas composition, and combinations thereof. In particular, the methods of the invention are readily applied to contaminated or potentially contaminated items such as, e.g., a vehicle, a weapon or weapon system, pavement, soil, vegetation, a garment, a tent, a building and/or comb...
The Safety Culture, which was first used in the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident report, is defined as the values, attitudes, perceptions, competencies, and behaviors of individuals and groups that determine the commitments, forms and efficiencies of their organization’s safety and health management ...