CSPAN3 Reel America Army In Action - The Cobra Strikes - 1965 July 12, 2024
By the spring of 1950, only five short years after the last shots of world war ii had been fired, the United States army has been reduced to an active force of 600,000. A great number of these were scattered about the world on occupation duty. But the armed forces of the communists, soviet russia and red china, remained on a strong born time playing and in belligerent posture. Aggression was soon to come. America would be fighting against tyranny for the third time in 32 years. Korea. The crowded finger of land of the crowded finger of land of key importance to the free world in the far east. ...