Word: pusan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weeks the North Koreans around the Pusan perimeter had maintained heavy pressure on Lieut. General Walton Walker's line. In spite of intensive and thorough bombing and strafing of supply lines from the air, the Reds were still getting enough to the southern front to hold the initiative. The rate of U.S. buildup inside the Pusan perimeter was so slow that, short of a complete North Korean collapse, Walker had little prospect of launching a decisive offensive...
...Inchon invasion was aimed at Seoul, through which runs the only good railroad and the best highway from North Korea to the Pusan perimeter. If the U.N. force could put its thumb on this windpipe of the North Korean forces, the Reds would soon run out of ammunition and other supplies. The Inchon invasion faced the North Korean command with a perilous choice: either pull divisions out of the Pusan perimeter in an effort to hold Seoul, or stay in the south and continue to fight Walker while Red supplies dwindled away...
...enemy knew that a U.N. landing was hanging over him. His spies had spotted U.S. and South Korean troops embarking from Pusan. The planes and ships that raked his coasts, on west and east, foretold an invasion. But the enemy did not know where the main amphibious blow would fall...
Under Major General Oliver P. Smith (see below), the ist Marines had been assembled from stations as distant as the Mediterranean and as near as the Pusan front...
...assault, the marines stormed Wolmi, swept through Inchon and seized Seoul's Kimpo airfield. Advancing rapidly, they entered the capital's suburbs, prepared to cross the Han River and get astride the communications to the south and the rear of the enemy's army around the Pusan perimeter. This week the enemy rallied; on the edge of their advance the marines came up against stiffer resistance...