Word: benninghoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They certainly were not confirmed by the Navy Department. Two U.S. Navy officers who had been aboard the LC-3 1090 described Russian officers "shrieking" at them Russian orders for the 1090 to leave the dock without her captain. During the excitement, Consul General Benninghoff was rudely kept standing in the street without being admitted to the office of Dairen's Russian commander...
There are at least three versions of what happened when the U.S. Navy's LC-3 1090 nosed into the Russian-held "free port" last week to bring official dispatches to U.S. Consul General Harry Merrell Benninghoff. Aboard the unarmed naval vessel were a U.S. businessman and two U.S. correspondents, LIFE'S Mark
Washington's State, War and Navy Coordinating Committee (SWINCC) had delved for months into the Korean problem, bristling with thorny questions of U.S.-Russian-Chinese relations. When surrender came, SWINCC hastily wrote a tentative directive, sent the State Department's Merrell Benninghoff to Korea to act as political adviser to U.S. occupation forces. Benninghoff got as far as Okinawa, was shunted off to Japan...