Word: hungnam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...several months in Japan and China, Gottfried has gone to Europe each year, made one trip to South America, and two around the world. His recent visit to Asia, his third since the war, took him to two of the most interesting places in the Far East-Hanoi and Hungnam...
Soon after viewing the French fortifications-the only real protection against the Red advance on Southeast Asia-Gottfried arrived at Hungnam, where he saw the orderly evacuation of tanks, supplies, filing cabinets, and 100,000 civilian Koreans...
...General Lowe's reports were likely to be written any place from a billet in Pusan to a 6-29 over the Yalu River. And they were likely to cover anything from the use of tactical aircraft to the problems of the individual footslogger. In the evacuation of Hungnam, Lowe came out in the last wave. There he saw a soldier accidentally shot in the foot by a careless machine gunner. Aware that the G.I. might be accused of shooting himself in the classic method of avoiding combat, General Lowe bustled up. "My name is Frank Lowe," said...
Since then, the Korean war has been well looped up. There was the heroic and brilliant loop around Hungnam, and the less brilliant one around Seoul, and next, apparently, will be a loop around Pusan. Perimeters, however, even brilliant and heroic ones, have only two military purposes: to get out of and to move forward from. Where is the U.S. going to move from its Pusan perimeter (or from any of the other perimeters drawn by the participants in the Great Debate...
...Destroy a Beachhead. After they reached the sea, the marines were promptly evacuated, and the 3rd and 7th Infantry Divisions deployed for the perimeter defense, with two R.O.K. divisions on the right. If the Chinese had had enough foresight (and the necessary artillery), they could have shelled Hungnam to ruins before the defense perimeter was erected and before the warships arrived. If they had attacked with a large and concentrated force at one point on the perimeter, they might have broken through to the port area. But they made no serious effort. On Friday, Dec. 15, 2,500 Chinese attacked...