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...city, a group of South Koreans forceably carried off Pastor Ye under the impression that he was a Red guerrilla. By the time they realized their mistake, the Communists were in full control of Seoul and Ye could not get back. For over three months he waited anxiously in Pusan...
Early in the Korean war U.S. planners had been haunted by the possibility that Communist China might go to the aid of North Korea. But after U.N. armies broke out of the Pusan perimeter and turned the North Korean retreat into a rout, the planners breathed more easily. China's chance to strike a decisive blow in the Korean war had passed...
Landing at Pusan two weeks ago, a Turkish officer said sadly: "We are jealous. We wish ... we could join the fighting." U.N. forces reaching Korea in the future would have even less chance to see any heavy fighting, but they would be welcome nonetheless. By carrying out mopping-up operations and occupation duties, they could free combat-weary U.S. troops for a return to Japan...
...evacuation hospitals. Many a man whose life would have been bounced out of him in a long jeep ride over goat trails through the Korean mountains got to an evacuation port in good shape. Just how good was shown by the astonishing record of the evacuation hospital at Pusan: of 18,000 admitted in the first three months of war, only 40 died...
...Pusan, supply port for U.N. forces...