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Last week, after nine months in Korea, weather-beaten Chesty Puller, 52, assistant commander of the ist Division, veteran of the Inchon landing and the Marines' heroic retreat from the Changjin Reservoir, was back in the U.S. to take over a training command...
Last August the Missouri stood out of Norfolk for Korea. Since then, she has been shelling Communists almost continuously for six months. She supported MacArthur's amphibious stroke at Inchon, the X Corps evacuation from Hungnam. Most of the time she harried Red communications along the east coast, shelling towns, roads, convoys, bridges. Last week the Big Mo was on her way back to the U.S. She was being "rotated," to give other ships a chance at the Korean...
...charterers, London ship brokers P. B. Pandelis Co., signed her up with the U.S. Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service. The Empire Marshal began ferrying soldiers from Japan to Korea. The crew got to know and like their passengers. The morning after the first assault landings at Inchon the Empire Marshal went in with tanks. When the Red Chinese began to close in on Hungnam and Wonsan last December, the Empire Marshal was waiting offshore to evacuate U.S. and British troops. Master and crew were praised by Rear Admiral J. H. Doyle, U.S. commander of the Hungnam operation...
Seoul had been heavily damaged last autumn when, after MacArthur's amphibious stroke at Inchon, the Marines and the 7th Infantry Division took it against savage North Korean resistance. This time there was more damage, from hundreds of shells hurled by U.N. artillery from the south bank of the Han. The Bun Chon shopping district, not badly mauled last autumn, was now flattened. Ambassador John J. Muccio's official residence had taken two more direct hits. The great red- painted, brass-studded gates of the embassy compound were leveled and buried in a welter of rubble. None...
...least-magnifies the refugee problem. A CAC executive said that although a few of the people who remained in Seoul had mysteriously managed to stay as "fat as quail," the vast majority were suffering from malnutrition. A U.S. freighter with 77,000 bags of rice was already lying off Inchon Harbor. Orphanages will quickly be set up for Seoul's swarms of homeless children...