Word: almond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bactrian (two-humped) camels in their supply trains. Lieut. General Walton Walker's Eighth Army was braced for a blow, but at week's end the Chinese had failed to deliver it. At Hungnam, on the east coast, 60,000 men of Major General Edward M. Almond's X Corps were being successfully evacuated by sea. Since battle and weather casualties had already been evacuated, practically all of the 60,000 were fit to fight elsewhere in Korea if called on to do so. The rescue of the bulk of MacArthur's forces in Korea...
...would get through. A vast armada of ships-freighters, transports, LSTs, carriers and other warships of the Seventh Fleet-were waiting for them. Vice Admiral Charles T. Joy, Far East naval commander, held a secret conference on his flagship with the X Corps' Major General Edward M. Almond and other brass. Joy said the Navy was ready for "any eventuality"-which was official doubletalk for evacuation...
...which had completed an unopposed landing at Iwon, 80 miles up the east coast from Hamhung. Originally scheduled to come ashore with the Marines at Wonsan, the 7th Division had landed at Iwon to save itself an overland trip north. At the time of the landing, Major General Edward Almond, U.N. commander in northeastern Korea, had tersely described the objective of his columns as "the border." By week's end it looked as though their drive to the border might be delayed...
...Wonsan, headquarters of Major General Edward Almond, a U.S. X Corps spokesman said that one Chinese Communist regiment was in action near Changjin...
...east coast. But on Oct. 10, just before what was to have been Dday, troops of the R.O.K. I Corps, driving overland, captured Wonsan ahead of schedule. The war had moved so fast that the big knockout assault scheduled to be commanded by Major General Edward M. Almond was not needed...