Word: kure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steaming off the North Korean east-coast port of Hungnam last week, her 5-in. guns blasting at enemy installations, the U.S. destroyer Ernest G. Small (2,400 tons) hit a mine. Holed below the waterline in a forward compartment, the Small made Kure, Japan, under her own power, but eight of her crew were dead, 18 injured. She was the eighth U.S. Navy vessel to strike a Communist mine. Mines, cheap to lay, hard to find and hazardous to hit, are the real peril of the Korean seas. Communists lay them at night from sampans, frigates, barges and junks...
...Kure, Japan, Swimmer Hironoshin Furuhashi shaved nearly a second off the world's record for the 500-meter free style. His time: 5:55.8. Runners-up:Yale's John Marshall, Hawaii's Ford Konno...