Word: pusan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special task force under the command of 34-year-old Lieut. Colonel Charles B. Smith. On July i, when the orders came, Dean dispatched Task Force Smith by air to Korea with the mission of meeting an army of 30,000 North Koreans on the road between Seoul and Pusan. Smith's force numbered only...
...wild, sleepless days, the men of the 24th Division fought a series of desperate delaying actions designed to slow the Red flood and borrow time for the Eighth Army to unload at Pusan and establish a firm line of defense. Each hour of delay, each blunting skirmish that forced the Communists to detour or deploy, was a small triumph, paid in full with American lives. Four times on the bloody road from Seoul the G.I.s halted the Reds briefly, upsetting their timetable and flattening their warhead...
...only 511 bodies recovered), 5,460 were Republic of Korea soldiers (1,004 bodies), and 17,354 were civilians-North and South Korean. Most of the atrocities took place in the summer and autumn of 1950, before the Chinese entered the war and while U.N. forces drove north from Pusan (see NEWS IN PICTURES...
...table outside his shop on Seoul's crowded South Gate Road last week, a gold-toothed leather craftsman tacked a crudely lettered sign: "Be-cus no more fight, no more gun holster but al kine camera bag." Throughout war-torn South Korea, from the open-sewered streets of Pusan to the rice-rich fields just below the front lines, there were similar signs of economic stirrings...
Scotti: Say, you were in Pusan. Did you get to Tokyo...