Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reacted to the Pearl Harbor attack merely by trying to clear the Japanese out of Hawaiian waters, World War II would be still going on-or else the enemy would have won it by now. The U.S. and its allies won because they immediately understood that they were in a war with Japan and that their ultimate goal was the destruction of the enemy's will to fight...
...suffered another Pearl Harbor in November when the Chinese crossed the Korean border in force. But it did not recognize that it was at war with Red China. Last week the U.N. was still acting as if it was engaged in a police action to round up law-breaking individual Communist soldiers instead of recognizing the struggle with a law-breaking government in Peking...
...make a comparison with the present situation. Wilson was very optimistic about industry's ability to supply both war and civilian goods as compared with 1941. "My guess is that it can supply 50% to 100% more in the next year than in the first year after Pearl Harbor. We have . . . a smaller reserve of unemployed to draw from . . . but our production capacity is very encouraging...
...briefing room in a former Japanese housing development a mile or so from the harbor, a U.S. major went up to a tactical map and pointed to a series of diminishing arcs around the Hungnam area. Said he: "If they get to this first arc, they'll be able to hit us here with artillery if they have any real long-range stuff. We don't think they have." Then he indicated another arc closer to the port and said, "If they get to here, they'll be able to hit us with regular Chinese artillery." Somebody...
Free Boat Ride. In the harbor meanwhile, the loading booms creaked and strained from dock to deck, and LCVPs (Landing Craft-"Vehicle, Personnel) churned busily from the beach out to an armada of U.S. Navy ships waiting to take out the troops. The South Korean navy sent one LST in to the beach to pick up several thousand R.O.K. troops, nurses and South Korean civilians. The Koreans wasted no time getting aboard. When they finally stopped getting aboard, the LST was crammed to the gunwales with over 4,000 passengers, including a fair share of the remaining civilian population...