Word: inchon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieut. Gennady Mishin, Soviet Air Force Serial No. 25054, is the only definitely identified Russian casualty of the Korean war. On Sept. 4, 1950 (eleven days before MacArthur's amphibious stroke at Inchon), Mishin's twin-engine bomber was shot down in the Yellow Sea, near the 38th parallel, by fighters from the U.S. carrier Valley Forge. A destroyer got Mishin's body from the wreckage before it sank. According to the U.S. report, the Red-starred Russian plane flew "toward the center of the U.N. [naval] formation in a hostile manner," eventually opening fire...
...Minute to Zero (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio) finds sleepy-eyed Robert Mitchum, as a U.S. infantryman, helping outmaneuver the Reds in Korea in 1950. Colonel Mitchum knocks out a Communist supply route and turns the U.S. defensive into an offensive on the eve of the Inchon invasion. As a result, he is promoted to general and wins the love of Ann Blyth. a cute member of a U.N. health & sanitation team in Korea...
...Accompanying a Marine assault force in the Naktong area, Bell captured the horror and heroism of war in his story, The Battle of No Name Ridge (TIME, Aug. 28, 1950). In September, Bell was a member of a team of five TIME Inc. reporters and photographers who covered the Inchon landings. Gibney had landed earlier on Wolmi Island, and watched the Inchon assault "about one city block away." Shortly afterward, Gibney returned to the U.S. and was replaced by Martin...
...bought 171,000 tons of fertilizer (superphosphate and ammonium sulphate) on world markets; 50,000 tons have already been unloaded at Pusan and Inchon. Except in a few drought-stricken areas, there is enough seed rice for this year's crop. For those who cannot pay or get credit, seed and fertilizer are doled out free. The myun jons, or township supervisors, are settling disputes and watching out for claim jumpers. So far there has been little trouble: by annihilating one farm family in ten, war has made enough land...
...Even though he married one, he took a solemn oath that he would never have anything to do with them during working hours. The one time he broke this vow was on a day that shells were whistling over his head while his landing boat was pulling into the Inchon beachhead, and a sudden swerve sent a pretty young columnist flying into his lap. The somewhat embarrassed Davies recovered his equilibrium, however, and went on to become one of the top war correspondents, covering the Pacific campaign for the Newark Evening News...