Word: chinnampo
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...duty in the Pentagon to command the Fifth Air Force under Weyland in Korea. There Partridge won the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry in action in an unusual spot for an air commander. In a light observation hedgehopper, he conducted personal reconnaissance over U.N. forces advancing against Pyongyang and Chinnampo, completed his mission even though his plane was hit repeatedly by enemy ground machine-gun fire...
...Chinese Communists surged into burning Pyongyang and its port, Chinnampo. At the port some 7,000 allied wounded and civilians were evacuated by sea. Six U.N. destroyers steamed 30 miles up the mine-infested Taedong estuary to a dangerous night rendezvous with the transports, then shelled Chinnampo's port installations into wreckage...
General MacArthur announced that a line from below Chinnampo to the Koksan area had been established (see map), but it was unlikely that such a line could be held, because of its open right flank...
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