Word: inchon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...timid, thankful repatriates told their stories at Munsan and Inchon last week, one fact became increasingly clear: the Chinese Communists have waged a ceaseless battle for the minds of their captives. Whatever cruel or gentle things the Chinese did, their purpose was to convince the P.W.s that the U.S. started the war, that the Chinese "volunteers" were their friends, that the U.S. was conducting germ warfare and had massacred North Korean and Chinese prisoners. "Physically," one ex-prisoner said of his Chinese camp, "it was all right, but mentally it was damn rough." Almost to a man, the returnees reported...
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...
...Order the Korean Service Corps (more than 100,000 Korean porters and others working for the U.N. Command), the dockworkers at Pusan, Inchon and other ports, and the railway workers to leave their work. In a time of active combat, with the front in need of a steady stream of supply, such a move by Rhee would be crippling. If the fighting in most sectors is at a standstill, as it now is, the move would be only a serious inconvenience...
After the first night's breaks, U.N. Brigadier General Lionel McGarr relieved the ROK guards at Camp No. 10 near Inchon with marines and U.S. Army M.P.s. They were told to fire only if their own lives were threatened. On the second night, No. 10's inmates assembled inside the stockades, hurled volleys of stones, charged the wire in masses. The U.S. guards fired, killing or wounding more than 100. Some prisoners were trampled to death, others were torn to bits on the wire. Altogether, more than 40 of them died at Inchon. The marines themselves were fired...
...beginning it was just like other wars: the marines sailed from San Diego, and the nation glowed with the conviction that its sons were fighting in an honored cause-to save the weak from the strong. The mood changed with the headline: resolute at Pusan, proud at Inchon, angry and alarmed at defeat on the Yalu...