Thursday, 8 July 2021, 11:13 am
The
news that Medsafe has
given approval to Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine
means the government is finally putting a backup plan in
place, after the series of close shaves it has been
experiencing of late in getting its deliveries of the Pfizer
vaccine. Around the world, Pfizer has become the preferred
choice – highly efficacious in preventing serious illness
and death, even against the Delta variant, and with (so far)
no sign of the rare but serious side effects associated with
the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Reportedly, we have two
million doses on order of J& J’s vaccine – which is
This Crazy Korean War Battle Rivaled Iwo Jima in Bloodiness nationalinterest.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nationalinterest.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Fighting for the Hook: A Forgotten Battle of the Korean War
United Nations forces fought a series of bloody battles with Chinese and Korean Communists for a piece of strategic real estate known as “the Hook.”
Here s What You Need to Know: The heroic actions of those who fought so bravely on the Hook have been largely forgotten.
Peering intently through a telescope, General Lemuel C. Shepherd, the commandant of the Marine Corps, scanned the shell-pocked Korean terrain in front of his position. Shepherd had made a special visit to the Korean front lines to obtain a firsthand view of the Main of Line of Resistance (MLR) his Marines were defending. In the early spring of 1952, under orders from the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea, the entire 25,000-man 1st Marine Division had moved from the east-central sector of the country to the western part of I Corps to man positions along the extreme left flank of an area called the Jamestown Line. In early March the Marines, joined by the attach