Word: inchon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inchon, 964 Korean orphans and other waifs of war, aged six months to eleven years, were waiting to be taken to an island off the South Korean coast. Some of the older ones were too weak from starvation to walk, or too sick (e.g., with scabies, whooping cough, tuberculosis). They were to have been settled in a children's refuge at Seoul, but U.N. reverses caused that plan to be abandoned...
...snows of Hungnam, as the air was rent by protective bombardment and the tragic thunder of demolition in the face of the enemy, U.S. troops prepared to pull out of North Korea. Below the 38th parallel, in the Seoul-Inchon area and at Pusan, other U.N. forces stood fast. On the other side of the world, Western European nations, beset by doubts and fears, gathered to consider their common defense...
...that failed to hold, withdrew to "Line Baker," just below the 38th parallel. Since this line would become untenable as soon as the sluggish Chinese were ready to strike, the next move would be to "Position Charlie"-which will consist only of two beachhead perimeters, one around Seoul and Inchon, the other one at Pusan (see map) which U.N. forces still hold. If the Chinese move in while the allies hold perimeters at Seoul and Pusan, they will expose themselves to the same sort of flanking situation that routed the North Koreans last September...
...saying last week that Mao Tse-tung would not like to pay the price of prolonged sieges of U.S. beachheads, buttressed by all the fire power that artillery, airplanes and warships could bring to bear. And even if the Chinese should force the U.N forces to abandon the Seoul-Inchon perimeter, they would have a still harder nut to crack at Pusan. The farther south they go, the longer their supply lines would be and the more vulnerable to attack...
...five weeks in advance of publication, could not do anything about its issue. To its 3,161,048 readers last week went an issue bearing a full-color cover picture of MacArthur smiling happily at Vice Admiral A. D. Struble over the streamer, "MacArthur's Greatest Battle," i.e., Inchon...