Word: samchok
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...made it, broke through to the sea, carrying along most of their wounded. Meanwhile, the Eighth Army, badly shaken by what everyone called the "Chinese hordes," retired all the way back past the 38th parallel, past Seoul. Finally, along a line running across the peninsula from a little below Samchok and Wonju, the Eighth stood its ground. At this point it became clear that the Eighth Army would not be driven into the sea, which was Peking's boasted...
...mighty battleship Missouri steamed far up Korea's eastern shore, fired 16-in. gun salvos on Samchok, important port and rail town. South Korean commandos raided the beach above Pohang. Then South Korean marines struck at Kunsan on the peninsula's west coast. But that, too, was a feint. The enemy did not suspect that the place would be Inchon, the port of Seoul, 150 miles northwest of Taegu. But Inchon it was, in spite of a formidable high tide* and a treacherous, silt-filled channel...
...airfields, trains and bridges near the Communist capital of Pyongyang. British Firefly bombers and Seafire fighters (carrier version of Britain's famed Spitfire) struck from the carrier Triumph, hit similar targets farther to the south. Earlier, U.S.British naval units sank five or six attacking Communist torpedo boats off Samchok. At week's end a Red shore battery scored a hit on the British cruiser Jamaica. The toll: six dead, three wounded. They were the first British naval casualties of the Korean...
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