Word: iwon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Vice Admiral Lyman A. Thackrey, 57, former chairman of the Joint Amphibious Board. World War II senior U.S. naval planner for the Normandy landings, commander of Amphibious Group 3 in the 1950-51 landings at Inchon and Iwon in Korea; of cancer; in San Diego...
Oxcarts & Airdrops. The 7th's men, although equipped with parkas and other arctic garb, were suffering in the coldest weather anywhere along the Allied front. For a while their supply road to the east-coast port of Iwon was blocked by snowdrifts ten or twelve feet deep. They resorted to oxcarts and airdrops. Said Major General David Barr, cheerfully: "There is nothing to worry about." This week the supply road was reopened...
...Gang." Other U.S. Marines were pushing north from Wonsan toward Hamhung. At Hamhung the Marines might face a bitter fight to keep open supply lines to the R.O.K. I Corps (the 3rd and Capitol Divisions) and to the U.S. 7th Infantry Division, which had completed an unopposed landing at Iwon, 80 miles up the east coast from Hamhung. Originally scheduled to come ashore with the Marines at Wonsan, the 7th Division had landed at Iwon to save itself an overland trip north. At the time of the landing, Major General Edward Almond, U.N. commander in northeastern Korea, had tersely described...