Word: hungnam
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...admiral who in 1950, while serving in the Korean War under General Douglas MacArthur, brilliantly commanded the amphibious landing of the First Marine Division at Inchon, leading to the liberation of Seoul from Communist troops, and later oversaw the two-week evacuation of 200,000 soldiers and civilians from Hungnam under heavy enemy fire; in Oakland, Calif...
...Korean Order of Military Merit Ulchi with Gold Star from the Korean ambassador at a ceremony in Washington, and reminisced about how he won it. Five years ago, as Captain Leonard P. LaRue of the S.S. Meredith Victory, he was freighting supplies to Korea. "The once fine city of Hungnam was gasping in its death throes. Five unshaven Army colonels came aboard. 'Captain, we need your assistance,' one said. 'Thousands of men, women and children are here. We have to get them out. Will you help us?' That heart-rending plea needed no reply...
...gone down in military annals as one of the great classic retreats in the history of war. Bringing their dead and wounded with them in sub-zero weather, pursued by eight fiercely attacking divisions of Chinese Communists, the marines of the 1st beat their way to Hungnam and rescue in 13 days. But proper marines never refer to the march as a retreat; in the parlance of the corps, it is always "an amphibious operation in reverse," or, simply, "the breakthrough to the sea." One proper marine, Major General Oliver Prince Smith, whose leadership made the operation possible, immortalized...
Article II C. A Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission is established. It is composed of one officer each from Sweden, Switzerland, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The N.N.S.C. will have 20 neutral-nations inspection teams, and will watch five Communist "ports of entry" (Sinuiju, Chongjin, Hungnam. Manpo, Sinanju) and five U.N. centers (Inchon, Taegu, Pusan, Kangnung, Kunsan...
...Lambert, now in TIME'S Bonn bureau, was hired as a correspondent by Manfred Gottfried, chief of TIME correspondents, in a sooty barracks building in Hungnam, just before Christmas in 1950. The first assignment Moffett gave him, when he reported for work three weeks later, was to take a week's vacation. Lambert didn't like the idea and, instead, went to work immediately...