Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walker laughed, admitted that Kim II Sung had escaped him. To Walker, MacArthur gave orders that South Korean forces should begin an all-out drive for the Manchurian border. Then the 70-year-old supreme commander boarded the SCAP again, headed back to Tokyo...
Muscling In. The drive for the Manchurian border was well started. Six hours after the air drop, the R.O.K. 6th Division had linked up with the paratroopers, was rolling northwest from Sunchon. Next day, while 1,800 more paratroopers jumped in to reinforce the Sunchon area, 1st Cavalry Division spearheads raced up from Pyongyang to join the airborne units. Supported by the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade, the cavalrymen and paratroopers began to move up the west coast...
...week's end the North Korean Communist radio announced that Red Premier Kim Il Sung had established a provisional capital at Sinuiju, just south of the Manchurian line in western Korea...
...enemy answer to Douglas MacArthur's call for surrender was quickly spotted by a U.N. plane. Winging far up North Korea, a U.S. 5th Air Force fighter-bomber, on a night intruder mission, saw vehicles rolling down from the Manchurian border. They moved in widely spaced clusters, strung over 100 miles of road. Clearly, with supplies from the Chinese and Russian comrades over the border, the enemy was feverishly building up a defense 80 miles north of the 38th parallel...
...conglomerate Russian-led army of Chinese, Mongolians, Koreans and Japanese is posted along the north Manchurian frontier. Numbers and organization unknown, they form a reservoir of indoctrinated troops who can be used in their native lands whenever necessary...