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...enemy's beachhead resistance was negligible. Within the first four days of their assault, the marines stormed Wolmi, swept through Inchon and seized Seoul's Kimpo airfield. Advancing rapidly, they entered the capital's suburbs, prepared to cross the Han River and get astride the communications to the south and the rear of the enemy's army around the Pusan perimeter. This week the enemy rallied; on the edge of their advance the marines came up against stiffer resistance...
Shore Party. Next day the general went ashore. On a ridgetop near Kimpo airfield he pulled on his corncob pipe and talked about bygone battles in the Philippines. To Vice Admiral Arthur Struble he said: "I've lived a long time and played with the Navy for a long time. They've never, never failed me." Then he drove back to the waterfront...
After three years of able postwar reporting in Germany, she became the Trib's Tokyo bureau chief in late June, was one of the first reporters to get to Korea when the war started. She flew to Seoul's Kimpo airfield, joined the retreat to Suwon, later covered the heartbreaking retreats of green, outnumbered U.S. troops. ("This is how America lost her first infantryman," she began her story of seeing Private Kenneth Shadrick fall in action.) She fought off attempts by officers, worried about her safety, to ship her out of Korea (TIME, July 24, 31), now stays...
Slit trenches and new antiaircraft batteries were appearing at many an Alaskan airfield. The Air Force was about to put a dozen men adrift on the ice, 200 miles north of Point Barrow, and leave them there for two months to study the tricks of keeping alive after bailing...
...left to Ambassador Warren Austin at U.N. to bow most deeply toward Peking. In a radio broadcast, the Chinese Communists had raged that two U.S. F51 fighters had strafed their Manchurian border airfield. At Lake Success, Austin said yes, it was just possible that one F51 had accidentally shot up the field, and the U.S. would gladly pay indemnities. Indeed, the U.S. was as anxious as anybody for an investigation and it would abide gladly by the ruling of a U.N. investigating commission...