Word: ported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bloody, muddy Korea, Douglas MacArthur and his field commander, Major General William F. Dean, had to hold a line somewhere between the battle zone and the southern supply port of Pusan. It seemed vital to hold the Sochon-Taejon-Taegu-Pusan railroad (see map)-double-tracked from Pusan to Taejon, the U.S. field headquarters-not only to feed the U.S. build-up in men and weapons but for lateral mobility behind the defense line. In the western sector, focus of last week's bloodiest fighting, Taejon and the rail line had a fine natural defense in front of them...
...were bombing Pyongyang, the Red capital, and other objectives north of the 38th parallel. U.S., British and Australian naval forces, including carriers and cruisers, were committed to action in the Korean theater; U.S. warships shelled shore installations at the Red-seized port of Inchon. Douglas MacArthur ordered the 24th Division, equipped with tanks and artillery, to Korea by sea. One battalion of the 24th was flown to Pusan and shipped to the Kum River front by rail. Major General William F. Dean, the 24th's commander, was appointed commanding general of all U.S. forces in Korea, with Church...
...Bataan droned along, the weather grew better, and over southern Japan four Mustangs flew up to provide a fighter umbrella for,the general's plane. Overruling his subordinates, who wanted to land him ia safety at Korea's far southern port of Pusan, MacArthur insisted on heading for Suwon airstrip, 20 miles south of Seoul and a target of persistent North Korean bombing and strafing attacks. Over Korea, a Russian-built Yak tried to slip through the Mustangs to get at the Bataan. As a Mustang closed in on the Yak, MacArthur said hopefully...
...visit to his old boyhood haunts in Port Arthur, Ont, Irish emotions welled up in the 66-year-old father of the documentary film, Robert (Nanook of the North) Flaherty: "It's very sad for me; most of my pals are gone, we're in another age." Also back in his hometown (Aspen, Colo.), shock-headed New Yorker Editor Harold Ross said that he hoped to clear up a mystery: "My mother always told me that [I was born] on the day Grover Cleveland was elected. But I've never been able to figure out why they...
...eleven-day running battle, Chiang Kai-shek's airmen machine-gunned and bombed the blockade-running ships, strewed clusters of floating mines in their path. Last week Hong Kong's merchants gave up, for the time being stopped further shipments to Red ports. The Nationalists' score: three ships sunk, two ships damaged, one ship captured. The casualties included vessels flying the British, Panamanian, Norwegian and Greek flags. By week's end more mines sighted in the Formosa straits caused the Communists to close the port of Shanghai to all shipping...