Word: pusan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME are being flown to Korea by the Far East Air Forces for distribution to our armed forces there. Through the Eighth Army's Intelligence Section, an additional 1,000 copies are also being provided for Korean civilians (and distributed by the United States Information Service) in Pusan and the beachhead area...
...fought a heroic but heartbreaking delaying action against the Communists-trading space for time, in the phrase of the military experts. After the landing of reinforcements, including the 1st U.S. Marines, the U.S. was now in a position to make a solid stand around the vital supply port of Pusan. If the Communists did not manage to strike a decisive blow this week, their chances of driving the U.S. into the sea would be virtually gone...
...Communists surely knew it. They were massing on the southern and western fronts for two major drives: one straight at Pusan, the other to take Taegu, the communications hub of the northern half of the U.N. defense line. The Reds had already established several small bridgeheads east of the Naktong River near Taegu, and the city itself was under enemy artillery fire...
...Communists kept on rolling. Some times they were stopped, temporarily; more often they advanced. At midweek, tank-led Red columns drove through Chinju and on toward Masan, only 30 miles from the main U.S. supply port of Pusan. West of Masan the grim and battered G.I.s of the U.S. 24th Division threw themselves into the line once more, and the Red advance ground to a halt. Lieut. General Walton H. Walker hastily moved the 25th Infantry Division to the southern front to shore up the 24th. This week the 24th had moved north, was facing another Red assault...
...tired and battered 24th Infantry Division, which needed a rest, and of the ist Cavalry Division, which could ill be spared from the central front, were wheeled 60 miles south to meet the threat. After the fall of Chinju, the next likely enemy objective was Masan-27 miles from Pusan...