Word: beachhead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...herewith reprinted). It shows the week's combat zone, and the zone that U.S. troops would have to fall back to in order to hold off the enemy. The perimeter of this "Comeback Zone," as it turned out, was almost exactly the same as the line of the beachhead subsequently held by U.S. & U.N. troops. The beachhead covered the maximum area which three or four well-armed U.S. divisions plus regrouped South Korean troops could hold...
...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...
Across the Naktong. In the U.N. beachhead around Pusan, General Walton Walker's Eighth Army (four U.S. divisions, five South Korean divisions and a British brigade) went over to a general offensive. The aim was to break the enemy ring and link up with the U.N. forces fighting their way east from Inchon. Initial advances along the 120-mile perimeter were spotty. Nevertheless, at week's end Walker's men had established bridgeheads on the west bank of the Naktong...
...Landing Ship-Dock) carries smaller craft within easy reach of beachhead, unloads them by flooding its welldeck, floating them out its stern gates. A versatile ocean-going ferry, the LSD can also be used as a mobile drydock. Length: 457 feet...
...office seldom knows where she is. This week, after days of suspiciously un-Higgins-like silence, they learned from her first delayed dispatch that Maggie Higgins had landed with the fifth wave of marines at Inchon and stayed with them under mortar and rifle fire and grenades until the beachhead was secured. She was making good an earlier promise: "I walked out of Seoul, and I want to walk back...