Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...save 500,000 gallons of fuel and 23,000 gallons of napalm (jellied gasoline for fire bombs). They went up in black smoke. The airfield barracks were soaked with kerosene; then a captain ran from one to another, setting them afire with a flaming broom. At Inchon, the port troops and thousands of civilians were evacuated under the guns of warships of five nations (U.S., British, Canadian, Australian, Dutch). The last two LSTs were floated off the mud flats by a high tide as the Chinese were swarming into the port area...
...MacArthur miracle that would have established the U.N. forces in a line across the waist of Korea did not come to pass. After abandoning the Korean capital and its port, Inchon (see below), the only possible move was retreat toward Pusan...
...that it was not the big offensive he hoped to launch, but only an operation de degagement to relieve pressure on the northeastern flank of the French-held Red River delta. Communist probing attacks have penetrated perilously close to Hanoi, threatened to cut the city off from the supply port of Haiphong...
...Yalta, Franklin Roosevelt, in trying to persuade Stalin to join in the Pacific war, had bribed him with Dairen and Port Arthur and the railways of Manchuria, and thereby had thrown China's door open to Russia. The views of such experts on Russia as George Kennan were rejected. No White Paper arguments could alter the fact that a majority of U.S. advisers on China were uncomprehending or prejudiced; that China policy was being made in Washington largely by the haters of Chiang's Kuomintang government; that no one who warned of the threat of Asiatic Communism...
...enough foresight (and the necessary artillery), they could have shelled Hungnam to ruins before the defense perimeter was erected and before the warships arrived. If they had attacked with a large and concentrated force at one point on the perimeter, they might have broken through to the port area. But they made no serious effort. On Friday, Dec. 15, 2,500 Chinese attacked the left side of the beachhead held by the 3rd Division, and suffered about 1,000 casualties...