Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bombed the port of Vladivostok...
Last week U.S. naval officers revealed that the premature fall of Wonsan had probably spared U.S. troops a very messy landing indeed. Captain Richard T. Spofford, in charge of minesweeping operations at Wonsan, told newsmen that the North Korean port had been blocked off by a vast field of 2,000 to 3,000 well-designed Soviet mines running 30 miles...
...French were regrouping in a beachhead around Hanoi and the nearby port of Haiphong. They were pulling out of difficult mountain and jungle terrain for the flat, open, rice-rich lower Red River valley. They hoped to hold a perimeter extending 160 miles around the river's mouth. They were waiting for U.S. tanks and planes and troops from France...
...Pusan, supply port for U.N. forces...
Even on the flight from Port-AuPrince, Coak amazed reporters with his powers of divination. He prognosticated that the ceiling at Idlewild Airport would be 800 feet, which turned out to be wrong by only a yard and a half...