Word: koreanizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Koreans a new era had begun. Russian marines patrolled Seoul, Korea's capital. Elsewhere in the Land of Morning Calm, Red Army paratroopers and truck-borne infantry had taken over airfields, harbors, railway junctions. Moscow reported that the Red flag waved in Korean towns, that Korean crowds were wildly cheering their liberators, that self-government committees were operating, and that a purge of collaborationists had begun...
Unfolding Hand. The swift advance of Russia's armies in Inner. Mongolia, Manchuria and Korea brought another political force to the fore. The Yenan-sponsored "Korean Independence League" (hitherto less prominent than other Korean exile groups in Chungking and Washington) suddenly emerged. It proclaimed...
...Koreans in the Japanese Army should desert, "carrying their arms along," to the Communists. "Koreans should rise up immediately . . . fight their way back to Korea . . . build up a new democratic Korean republic...
...written off, the Japanese were trying feverishly to stockpile the home islands against invasion day with raw materials from North China, Manchuria and Korea. U.S. analysts concluded last week that Japan now had only a single unbroken line of communication with the mainland -the one from northeastern Korean ports, across the Sea of Japan, to small ports on the northwest coast of Honshu. The great funnel through which the lifeblood of imports was once transfused into Japan was already fouled with wrecked ships sunk by U.S. forces...
...fleet air wings, which the Navy calls "Fairwings" for short. Fairwing 1 and Fairwing 18 have been based in the Ryukyu Islands since early April. Fairwing 1, under veteran seaplaner Rear Admiral John Dale Price, has sunk or damaged more than 200,000 tons of shipping in Korean waters. Fairwing 18, skippered by Rear Admiral Marshall Raymond Greer (onetime shipmate of Price in the old battleship North Dakota), has operated farther east, where the hunting was not so good, but sometimes it has flown over into Fairwing 1's territory to help...