Word: inchon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Illinois: Majority Leader Scott Lucas, who has forged ahead of ex-Representative Everett Dirksen since the landing at Inchon...
...more important role than "Ned" Almond in saving Korea from Red aggression. The war was hardly a fortnight old and the U.N. forces were still beating a dismal retreat, when the Chief of Staff was told to start thinking of an end run around the enemy's line. Inchon was picked as the place for an amphibious assault, despite its treacherous tide and seawall. "Who's going to command the landing force?" asked the Chief of Staff. "You are," said MacArthur...
Bouquets to you and your reporters, Frank Gibney and James Bell, for their stories of the assault waves on Wolmi and Inchon. Man, that's reporting...
...brilliant landing at Inchon had been executed while the enemy still held the initiative and numerical superiority in manpower. This time the odds would be overwhelmingly on the U.N. side...
...North Korea. MacArthur blacked out news of the whereabouts of certain U.S. units; everyone guessed that some were being readied for another amphibious flanking assault along the west coast of Korea. Efficient, sharp-spoken Major General Edward M. Almond, as MacArthur's chief of staff, had planned the Inchon landing and then led the X Corps ashore to capture Seoul. It seemed a likely bet that Ed Almond and his seasoned men would figure in the next big action...