Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three days after the fleet left Japan, it dropped anchor off Pohang, a dusty, smelly little town with a mirror-calm harbor. Not a shot was fired. Most of the green-clad G.I. invaders came ashore without even getting their feet...
...week the Juneau had been away, the little (formerly five officers and less than 100 men) U.S. naval base had become headquarters for a U.N. task force. Ringed by soft green mountains, the turquoise harbor was a colorful array of British, Australian and American flags. Little whaleboats and captain's gigs raced madly back & forth hauling the brass on formal calls, which "are well in order," the British said, "since this is really not a war after all." At the officers' club Royal Marines turned out each night in red cummerbunds and dinner jackets. The Americans dressed...
After two days in port, the Juneau went on the prowl again. I was aboard when she left the harbor, riding low in the water from the heaviest load of ammunition she had ever carried. As we put off, a 40-man U.S. Marine guard in knife-edge khaki stood at ramrod attention as the Juneau's band blared a salute. Then, as the sun slowly set into purple clouds and dark green mountains, the ship seemed to relax. A cool evening breeze played across her bow and she headed back for "The Little Slot...
...east, where the mountains rise abruptly out of the Japan Sea, there are few good harbors. On the western side of the peninsula, the mountains slope gently into the sea and natural harbors are numerous, but their usefulness is reduced by huge tides. Inchon, the port of Seoul is bedeviled by 29-foot tides. The best harbor is Pusan, now held by the US from which in 1592 the Koreans sent a turtle-shaped ship, the world's first ironclad, to beat the invading Japanese...
...construction has not begun to replace the losses from sinkings and scrappings. Even with the completion in 1952 of six liners now in the yards, the U.S. will have only 58 passenger vessels in operation, with berths for 20,000 passengers, less than half the space available before Pearl Harbor. Last week U.S. shipbuilders were hoping that Congress would pass the industry-sponsored long range shipping bill providing special tax benefits as well as a maximum 50% construction subsidy to build ships for the U.S. Merchant Marine...