Word: retaken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came, and the shops crumpled and burned. Shopkeepers buried or carried away their goods. The East Gate Market became an empty wilderness of rubble, galvanized iron and silence. Seoul fell to the Communists, was retaken, fell again, once more was retaken...
...forces had retaken the South Korean capital of Seoul...
Pohang, a minor but useful port, had been lost to the enemy last month arid then retaken by the South Koreans in what they prematurely called their "greatest victory of the war." Last week, cracking before a tremendous Red onslaught, they lost Pohang again. Pohang's airport, which a U.S. task force was defending, was still in Allied hands at week...