Word: pyongyang
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...leader of the U.N. coalition, was not preparing to defend all of South Korea. But neither was it planning to quit the peninsula altogether-at least not now. During its retreat, the Eighth Army stood first on "Line Able" below Pyongyang, and when that failed to hold, withdrew to "Line Baker," just below the 38th parallel. Since this line would become untenable as soon as the sluggish Chinese were ready to strike, the next move would be to "Position Charlie"-which will consist only of two beachhead perimeters, one around Seoul and Inchon, the other one at Pusan...
...Chinese Communists surged into burning Pyongyang and its port, Chinnampo. At the port some 7,000 allied wounded and civilians were evacuated by sea. Six U.N. destroyers steamed 30 miles up the mine-infested Taedong estuary to a dangerous night rendezvous with the transports, then shelled Chinnampo's port installations into wreckage...
There were 300,000 people in Pyongyang (an equal number had gone north with the Communists in October). When it became known last week that the Allies would not defend the city, refugees began streaming south. To prevent them from blocking troop movements on the roads, the Allies barred two Army bridges across the Taedong River. But some refugees climbed down a levee in the shadow of a quiet Buddhist temple, and crawled across a shattered old vehicular bridge. Others waded across. They were pitiful reflections of defeat-wretched, fear-stricken and numbed with cold...
...light snow fell on Pyongyang, drifting down past boarded shop fronts on the city's main street. The Communists had once named this thoroughfare for Stalin, and now, after an absence of 40-odd days, they would probably so name it again...
When, at last, the tired, bedraggled brigade did fight its way clear, the Turks marched 50 miles down the road to Pyongyang, carrying their wounded on their backs, pointing in disgust at the direction they were headed, and repeating over & over again: "The general's orders . . . the general's orders...