Word: pusan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most dramatic news of improvement came from Korea. After 83 days of defeat, retreat and dogged defense on the Pusan perimeter, General MacArthur threw a mixed corps of soldiers and marines into an assault on the Communist-held Korean capital of Seoul-a strike which might well shorten the Korean war by months (see WAR IN ASIA). Washington, also, had its Page One reports of a change for the better. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson was fired by an irate President, and General of the Army George Catlett Marshall came out of retirement to succeed...
...hostile manner. The bomber opened fire upon a United Nations fighter patrol, which returned its fire and shot it down." A U.N. destroyer fished the airman from the sea. His identification papers showed that he was Lieut. Gennady Vasilievich Mishin, serial number 25054. He was buried at Pusan...
Other casualties among correspondents in Korea last week were Philip Potter of the Baltimore Sun and Jean de Premonville of Agence France-Presse, who were wounded slightly when they ran into a guerrilla ambush during a night drive from Yongsan to Pusan. Three other correspondents who were with them, including the New York Herald- Tribune's Homer Bigart, escaped injury...
...first European infantry outfits to join the United Nations' South Korean fighting forces went ashore at Pusan last week. They were the 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the 1st Battalion of the Middlesex (London) Regiment, both British army regulars. The Argylls wore tam o'shanters, bush tunics, jungle-green shorts. Only the regimental pipers wore the traditional kilt, which in World War I earned for the Scots the nickname "Ladies from Hell...
...south-coast flank, where the enemy's chewed-up 6th Division had been reinforced, the Reds quickly recovered from Task Force Kean's "spoiling attack" (TIME, Aug. 21) and hammered again at the approaches to Masan, the main gateway to Pusan. But this time, no overly expensive spoiling attack was needed to save Pusan. The 5th Regimental Combat Team and the 24th Regiment (the 25th Division's crack Negro outfit) struggled valiantly for upland vantage points called Battle Mountain and Sobuk Ridge. Half a dozen times the heights changed hands. At one stage the doughfeet were described...