Word: chosin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house in a company-owned lumber town in north-central Louisiana. Both youths quit school early-Pate in the ninth grade, Wilson in the eighth. They were in the Army at 17, fighting in Korea as infantrymen in the U.S. 7th Division the following year. Both were captured near Chosin Reservoir in December 1950. After that came prison camp, Panmunjom and life under Communism...
Unanswered. Lieut. General Edward M. Almond, who led the X Corps from the Inchon landing to the Chosin reservoir, estimated that victory could have been had in 1951 at the price of only 30,000 casualties, whereas subsequent casualties during the truce talks numbered...
...closest links between U.S. prisoners of war and their families back home were pictures taken in Korean prison camps by Associated Press's Pulitzer Prizewinning* Photographer Frank Noel. It was a strange sort of beat. Noel, himself a P.W. since his 1950 capture while covering the Marines at Chosin Reservoir, used a Speed Graphic and films forwarded by A.P. through the Panmunjom camp. Censored by both Chinese and U.S. military, his pictures of beaming C.I.s seemed at once good propaganda to the Communists and good news for the U.S. home front. Last week, when Frank Noel reached Panmunjom...
...height of the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir last winter, Meirowsky arrived at Hamhung with a duffel bag full of instruments. He elbowed some space in a field hospital, persuaded a peacetime obstetrician to team up with him, and got to work. By the time the evacuation was over, he had proved his point that brain operations could be performed under com bat conditions...
With creaking of caissons and clattering of brass, the Army wheeled up to the firing line and took aim at Chaplain Otto Sporrer, U.S.N. The chaplain, a lieutenant commander who was at Chosin Reservoir with the Marines, came home to accuse the Army in Korea of being poorly led, its officers softened by luxury, and its men, at one point, guilty of cowardice (TIME, April 2). Countered General Matthew Ridgway in a report to the Pentagon last week: "The specific allegations which could be checked in this theater have been disproved in their entirety . . . [Chaplain Sporrer] has slandered the reputation...