Word: pusan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then came the waiting. Along the battle lines, fighting slackened. South Korean leaders worried over the prospect of a settlement whjch would leave North Korea in Communist hands. Their legislature had already passed a resolution opposing a cease-fire at the 38th parallel. In Pusan, the powerful National Society staged a street rally and, before waving, hand-clapping Koreans, voted for a fight to the finish, immediate disarmament of North Korean Communists, and "international sanctions" against the aggressors' allies. But elsewhere in the non-Communist world, there was only cautious hope...
...force the enemy to deploy and he succeeded. In some of the heaviest battles of the whole campaign, at the famed "Bowling Alley" outside Taegu, the Reds were stopped cold. With that victory, the U.N. forces bought time for a buildup behind the hastily thrown-up defense perimeter around Pusan...
Phase Two began after less than three months during which a nearly miraculous logistical effort poured a flood of war materiel and men into Pusan's choking port. When the allied forces were finally ready for the big breakout, some U.N. forces stabbed westward to Kunsan, but the main body drove north toward Seoul. Then MacArthur dealt one of the master strokes of the war: the landing at Inchon (Seoul's port). The routed North Koreans reeled back toward the Manchurian border. MacArthur sent his forces after them in hot pursuit up to the Yalu...
...long dispatches from the Korea front. Their emphasis was on how Penny herself, not the boys, was faring. One of her first discoveries was the shortage of ladies' powder rooms along the 38th parallel. Near the front line, she "prayed fervently for a set of bulletproof undies." At Pusan, she tried on a Korean woman's costume, including an infant slung on her back (see cut). Garbled Penny: "I've always believed that when in Rome you should visit La Scala." She also took a jet plane ride arranged by U.S.A.F. Colonel H. A. Schmid, who, gurgled...
...Pusan, Korea...