Word: pusan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks the U.S. command in Korea has faced a crucial choice between two plans of battle. One was to withdraw to the shortest possible defense perimeter immediately surrounding Pusan and build up within it for a counterthrust. A shorter perimeter could have been more easily held by fewer troops, giving battle-weary G.I.s a chance to rest up in the rear...
...provisional capital of the South Korean government; it was the main Allied supply base and communications hub for the central front; it had a valuable airfield from which U.S. tactical airplanes were blasting the Reds; it also blocked what the Communists considered the main approach to the port of Pusan. The North Koreans last week made frenzied efforts to take Taegu. They failed...
When the Reds began shelling the city from the west bank of the Naktong, President Syngman Rhee's government made its third emergency move of the war*-to Pusan-and ordered the evacuation of Taegu's population (swollen from the normal 300,000 to about twice that figure). Soon the roads to east and south were choked with heavily burdened, white-clad refugees...
...face of withering enemy artillery fire the 24th recoiled. To bolster them General Walton Walker pulled the U.S. 1st Marine Brigade back from its precarious advanced position near Chinju on the southern front (where their chief objective of breaking up the Reds' south-coast drive toward Pusan had been accomplished) and threw them into battle alongside General Church's infantrymen at Changnyong...
...embattled South Korea. MacArthur carries on a cordial correspondence with U.N.'s Secretary General Trygve Lie, has periodic talks with Lie's personal representative, Colonel Alfred G. Katzin of South Africa, and on his last flying visit to Korea, called on U.N.'s Korean Commission in Pusan (which maintains telephone contact with Lake Success...