Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remnants of 13 divisions below the 38th parallel. They had suffered scores of thousands killed and wounded. Some 50,000 North Koreans were P.W.s. Almost all their tanks and trucks committed in the southern fighting had been knocked out or abandoned. They had no air cover. Their naval defense was limited to a few patrol boats and the sowing of Russian-made mines. To man their defenses above the 38th parallel they had two reserve divisions, the remnants from the south and a batch of new, poorly trained recruits, a force totaling about...
...Magpie was the third U.S. warship hit by floating mines off Korea. The destroyers Brush and Mansfield had suffered eleven dead, three missing, 17 wounded, but managed to limp back to port. In Washington, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Forrest P. Sherman said the mines were Russian-made, "only recently from the warehouse," probably set adrift in Korean rivers. More than 65 have been swept up so far. They are illegal under The Hague Convention of 1907, which forbids unmoored mines. Russia, however, had never signed the convention...
During a brief return to port for ammunition and supplies, this Task Group was provided with two hundred (200) copies of TIME, redistributed from the Tokyo Headquarters of Commander Naval Forces, Far East, and I understand that an unbroken sequence will follow . . . Distribution of the issue was made among our carriers, destroyers, and Marine fighter squadrons...
...Others who were dropped: Ex-Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, ex-Chief of Naval Operations Louis Denfeld...
...naval power based on the island chain could hold Communism in check almost everywhere along Asia's rimland. Needed: U.S. pressure and guidance for firmer governments, U.S. training and equipment for better Asian armies...