Word: munsan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every day last week, approximately 400 U.N. prisoners arrived at Panmun jom and, by helicopter, truck and ambulance, were sped back to Freedom Village near Munsan. Some of the survivors of Communist prison camps were healthy, robust men, who grinned, waved and danced on the gravel path to the receiving tents. Some could not dance, because they were emaciated or had only one leg. Others were litter cases, undernourished or sick with tuberculosis or dysentery...
...Commandant Mark Clark, at his advance headquarters near Munsan, signed the truce documents brought to him from Panmunjom. He said: "I cannot find it in me to exult in this hour...
...Clark signed alone in a tin-roofed movie hall at Munsan, the allied truce base, three hours after the Panmunjom signing, and Kim and Peng presumably signed in their own lair at Pyongyang. Behind Clark, ramrod stiff, jaws clamped tight, sat ROK Major General Choi Duk Shin. Spotting him after the signing, Clark said, "I'm glad you came." "Thank you," said General Choi...
Medics, doctors, nurses and some among the 140 newsmen watched them with tears in their eyes. The stretcher cases were taken by helicopter to the advance base at Munsan, where a mobile surgical hospital had been erected; the walking patients went by ambulance. The first man to reach Munsan was Pfc. Robert Stell, a Baltimore Negro. General Mark Clark, who was waiting at Munsan to greet the returnees, saluted Stell and made a move to adjust his robe, but a medic beat the general to it. After medical and intelligence processing, the men were offered cigarettes, Cokes, milk shakes, steak...
...returnees with calories and vitamins. Every available helicopter was standing by; two hospital ships, one U.S. and one Danish, were anchored at Inchon. A huge galvanized-iron shed was erected as a stopover for disabled Chinese and North Koreans on their way north. The press train reappeared at Munsan, with phone lines to Seoul and teletype circuits to Seoul and Tokyo...