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When he lunched at the Pearl Harbor Officers' Club-after a cruise in a picket boat past the rusting hulks of the battleship Arizona* and the target ship Utah-he spoke with great seriousness of his hope for world peace. At the Army's Tripler General Hospital, where he made a surprise visit to men wounded in the Korean war, his usual geniality returned. He joked with a soldier who had lost an eye: Well, the President said, you can be a banker and use your glass eye to show sympathy to people who want loans...
...about 125,000 men), six South Korean divisions (about 60,000 men), one Australian and two British battalions (about 3,000 men). The Eighth Army was battle-hardened and victory-flushed, had unchallenged air support. For amphibious operations it had an equally unchallenged Navy: six aircraft carriers, the U.S. battleship Missouri, six cruisers, hundreds of destroyers, landing craft and other vessels...
...Navy recommissioned four more destroyers and the carriers Princeton and Monterey from its mothball fleet, began reconditioning the 45,000-ton battleship New Jersey, requisitioned as a transport the unfinished luxury liner United States (see BUSINESS), the largest ever laid down...
...mighty battleship Missouri steamed far up Korea's eastern shore, fired 16-in. gun salvos on Samchok, important port and rail town. South Korean commandos raided the beach above Pohang. Then South Korean marines struck at Kunsan on the peninsula's west coast. But that, too, was a feint. The enemy did not suspect that the place would be Inchon, the port of Seoul, 150 miles northwest of Taegu. But Inchon it was, in spite of a formidable high tide* and a treacherous, silt-filled channel...
...gossip in Swedish seaports last week was that the 35,000-ton Sovietsky Soyuz (the Soviet Union), the U.S.S.R.'s first battleship, was making trial runs in the eastern Baltic. It was the first report heard by the Western world since January, when word came over the seamen's grapevine that the ship had been commissioned...