Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provisional capital of the South Korean government; it was the main Allied supply base and communications hub for the central front; it had a valuable airfield from which U.S. tactical airplanes were blasting the Reds; it also blocked what the Communists considered the main approach to the port of Pusan. The North Koreans last week made frenzied efforts to take Taegu. They failed...
During the week the South Koreans also made three amphibious landings. Two were on the islands of Tokchok and Yonghung, off the western coast, 35 and 17 miles respectively southwest of Inchon, Seoul's port. Presumably the purpose was to establish bases for U.S. air attacks on the enemy's coastwise shipping, and for a possible future seaborne attack on the mainland. On the southern coast, the South Koreans captured the town of Tong-yong, 25 miles southwest of Masan, across a narrow strait from Koje Island...
...bomb smuggled in aboard ship might be set to explode under water at about the same time as one dropped from the air. Its shock wave traveling through the water would crush the hulls of ships in port. A million tons of radioactive water thrown into the air would smash nearby piers and warehouses, splash on others farther away, making them unapproachable for weeks or months. A wind-borne mist laden with deadly radioactive particles would threaten survivors to leeward...
...Korea last week was that the Allied beachhead, although altered a little in size and shape, remained intact. There were no more wholesale withdrawals; there was still a good deal of defensive terrain and plenty of room for deployment of men, arms, supplies. The closest Red thrust to the port of Pusan had been flung back. Thus another week was gained for the U.S. buildup...
...down the road I enter the busy port of Pusan. Over its outskirts two helicopters are flying. Most of the Koreans on the highway look briefly up, then down again, as the helicopters hover and pass. But one, a boy of perhaps seven or eight, stares upward at the monstrous things with a gaze of fixed and bright fascination. His eyes shine, his lips are parted, and I think of an American boy gazing at his first bicycle on a Christmas morning...