Word: hungnam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concentration of U.S. fire laid down on the enemy around the Hungnam evacuation perimeter dwarfed anything ever seen before in Korea. As the beachhead dwindled to a few square miles, with only rear guards of the 3rd and 7th Divisions fighting ashore, U.S. self-propelled guns, howitzers, heavy mortars and flak wagons put out a tremendous weight of metal per mile of front. Behind them, the Seventh Fleet's warships sent in their own barrage from the battleship Missouri (whose nine 16-in. guns can fire one-ton projectiles more than 20 miles) and from cruisers, destroyers and rocket...
...Hungnam evacuation was unhurried. On Christmas Eve, Rear Admiral E. C. Ewen radioed from the carrier Philippine Sea that "the last remnants of the gallant forces of Northeast Korea" had been taken off. The Navy announced that the number evacuated from Hungnam was 215,000, including the First Marine Division, the Army's Third and Seventh Divisions, many South Korean troops and 100,000 civilians...
...Seventh Paragraph. MacArthur's decision to crack down stemmed from the coverage of the Hungnam evacuation. Three weeks ago, while U.S. marines and G.I.s were still clawing their way back to the escape port, a Reuters dispatch from Tokyo briefly mentioned the preparations for an evacuation, a fact all Tokyo correspondents knew but had not filed, for security reasons. The evacuation news, which had been buried in the seventh paragraph of the Reuters story, was rewritten into the lead in London and splashed across the front page by the Chicago Tribune and other papers. When the New York offices...
...Colonel's Troubles. We drove up the main road from Hungnam to Hamhung, a distance of about eight miles. U.N. forces had officially evacuated the city that morning, amid some of the most spectacular demolitions of the retreat, but more were still to come...
...with a Bang. Back down the road to the port of Hungnam, thousands of bewildered refugees watched as the retreating U.N. army destroyed trains, tents, unsalvageable vehicles and more bridges. A young engineer lieutenant pointed pridefully to the underside of a 600-ft. highway bridge; he had packed in a series of charges totaling three tons of explosives and thought that this one should really go up with a bang; 30 minutes later it did, and the bang shook most of Hungnam. That night Hungnam rocked to still more violent and ever-increasing explosions around the U.S. perimeter. Great orange...