Word: ported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...17th Regiment, which last month had stood briefly on the Yalu (it was the only U.S. unit to reach that fateful river), had also made its way down from the mountains to Hamhung. Altogether some 60,000 men of X Corps, including two R.O.K. divisions, were in the port area awaiting evacuation by a huge fleet of allied ships. Fresh troops, mostly 3rd and 7th Division units which had not been chewed up by prior fighting, manned a defense perimeter around Hungnam, the port...
...diminishing arcs around the Hungnam area. Said he: "If they get to this first arc, they'll be able to hit us here with artillery if they have any real long-range stuff. We don't think they have." Then he indicated another arc closer to the port and said, "If they get to here, they'll be able to hit us with regular Chinese artillery." Somebody indicated a still smaller arc on the map and asked: "What happens when they get here?" The major cocked an eyebrow at his questioner, shrugged and replied, with...
...Chinese Communists surged into burning Pyongyang and its port, Chinnampo. At the port some 7,000 allied wounded and civilians were evacuated by sea. Six U.N. destroyers steamed 30 miles up the mine-infested Taedong estuary to a dangerous night rendezvous with the transports, then shelled Chinnampo's port installations into wreckage...
...Wave & Look Happy." Meanwhile, the port of Wonsan was evacuated by elements of the Army's 3rd Division, which were moved 50 miles north by sea to help hold a perimeter around Hamhung and Hungnam. The R.O.K. 3rd and Capital Divisions, which had also been evacuated by sea far up the northeastern coast, arrived to strengthen the defense arc around Hamhung. The U.S. 3rd formed a rescue force which rolled up the Changjin road and joined the hard-pressed marines and G.I.s of the southbound column, a few miles from Koto. The rescue party had been given the formidable...
...further "its fanatical design of dominating Asia and the world." Screamed Wu: "Who has shattered security in the Pacific? Have Chinese armed forces invaded Hawaii, or have U.S. armed forces invaded . . . Korea and Formosa? . . . The real intention of the U.S., as MacArthur has confessed, is ... to dominate every Asiatic port from Vladivostok to Singapore...