Word: inchon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Golden Moment. His own landing at Inchon in Sept. 1950, said MacArthur, changed pessimism to optimism: "This was the golden moment to translate military victory to a politically advantageous peace . . . The inertia of our diplomacy failed utterly to utilize the victory of Inchon and subsequent destruction of the North Korean armies as the basis for swift and dynamic political action to restore peace and unity to Korea...
Yalu [and, indeed, after Inchon, had hoped for peace by Christmas]. His reasons were purely military: "With our largely unopposed air forces, with their atomic potential, capable of destroying at will bases of attack and lines of supply north as well as south of the Yalu River, no Chinese military commander would dare hazard the commitment of large forces upon the Korean peninsula...
...processing center and a mobile surgical hospital. The hospital staff ran through a practice drill. In cases of malnutrition, the medical people were ready to stuff the returnees with calories and vitamins. Every available helicopter was standing by; two hospital ships, one U.S. and one Danish, were anchored at Inchon. A huge galvanized-iron shed was erected as a stopover for disabled Chinese and North Koreans on their way north. The press train reappeared at Munsan, with phone lines to Seoul and teletype circuits to Seoul and Tokyo...
...veteran of World War II, he landed at Inchon in September 1950, and has been in Korea ever since. Nervously twirling his green fatigue cap, Old Soldier Fitzpatrick explained: "I just like the Army, so I stayed. Here in Korea I was helping and learning at the same time. Besides, all the friends I have are in the Army...
...first disorganized days of the Korean war, the Marines were ready again, and it was Lem Shepherd who bore the brunt of getting them into the hard-pressed Pusan perimeter. The decision to take Inchon from the sea was General Douglas MacArthur's; the men who did the detailed planning were a little group of Marine officers, and the first troops ashore were from the First Marine Division, with Lem Shepherd landing in the fifth assault wave. When Chinese hordes threatened to engulf the Marines below the Yalu River, Shepherd flew to the Changjin Reservoir by helicopter...