Word: koje
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans who run it call it Beggars' Island. Koje is a rocky, dun-colored dollop, 20 miles southwest of Pusan in the Korea Strait. On this island, in a cluster of barbed-wire compounds, the U.N. keeps its war prisoners-110,000 North Koreans and 17,000 Chinese-plus about 40,000 civilian internees...
Packed Living. Colonel Maurice J. Fitzgerald, Koje's debonair commander, has a 7,000-man force, including a first-rate U.S. outfit and two smaller South Korean units. Though not otherwise boastful about camp conditions, U.S. officers take pride in the fact that guard brutality to prisoners is at a minimum: the trouble is prisoner to prisoner...
...purpose was to establish bases for U.S. air attacks on the enemy's coastwise shipping, and for a possible future seaborne attack on the mainland. On the southern coast, the South Koreans captured the town of Tong-yong, 25 miles southwest of Masan, across a narrow strait from Koje Island...