Word: fusan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Associated Press's San Francisco teletypes. Suddenly a side item from Pearl Harbor set another teletype going. Bureau Manager Harold Turnblad whistled in surprise as he read: "Powerful Allied naval forces have attacked a portion of the Japanese fleet lying at anchor near the entrance to Fusan Harbor on the southeast coast of Korea . . . 26 of approximately 80 ships . . . were set afire . . . more than 70 Japanese vessels, including warships and transports, were . . . sunk...
...twin sons used to go into the wilds, hunt tigers and wild boars. Another Underwood hobby: early Korean naval history. In last month's Yachting Dr. Underwood has an article on a 16th Century naval battle when the Japanese attempted a Pearl Harbor on the Korean port of Fusan. The Koreans destroyed half the 500 Japanese ships...