Word: beachhead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the first U.S. troops, committed in battle below Seoul, had carried out MacArthur's first step and forced the enemy to deploy (map 1), MacArthur was able to foresee and plan the future course of the war. He planned a delaying retreat to a defensible beachhead (map 2), a buildup of strength behind the perimeter (map 3) and finally a breakout aided by one or more amphibious attacks behind the enemy lines (map 4). Although the Korean war brought many surprises (of which the greatest was the sudden Red collapse), the shape of the war after the first...
...airplanes and by 3.5-in. bazookas, capable of penetrating eleven inches of armor, the first of which were dispatched to Korea by emergency air shipment from the U.S. It was clear that if the Kum River line could not be held, the defenders would soon be compressed into a beachhead perimeter around Pusan. U.S. commentators began to bandy the horrid word "Dunkirk." Were the Allies in Korea being pushed into...
...three-phase war. The first phase was to fight a delaying action toward Pusan and establish a perimeter around this excellent port with both flanks resting on the sea. U.S. & U.N. forces, with control of the air and sea, ought to be able to hold such a protected beachhead indefinitely. The second phase was to build up U.S. strength inside the perimeter. The third phase, as outlined by the editors, was the break out from the Pusan perimeter supported by Allied amphibious attacks behind the North Korean lines...
MacArthur had predicted that the Reds would find it impossible to try to contain both the Inchon-Seoul invasion beachhead and the Eighth Army's southeastern perimeter. They would have to take their choice. Last week they took it. They fought like tigers for Seoul and melted away in the south. Early this week, Eighth Army spearheads racing west and north from the old perimeter were only 25 miles from a link-up with the southern arm of the Seoul enclave...
South Korean units, under direct orders from Lieutenant General Walker, have crossed the thirty-eighth parallel. Thus a complicated political problem which second academic two weeks ago when United Nations troops were fighting to held a small beachhead has not only caught up with us but has in a sense already passed us by. It may even be too late for us to catch up with...