Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Aug. 24 story of Captain Austin King's use of salad oil to solve his hydraulic problem over Seoul in his C46 recalled the time our 6-24, Sweet Sue, took a German flak burst amidships early in '44, which pierced several small holes in our hydraulic lines...
...back on an old battleground with a new mission. Arriving in Seoul as part of an eleven-man welfare team of the American-Korean Foundation, he said, "I am happy to be here and deeply touched to be back with people I love so much...
...Korea, another U.S. ally put himself on record, and the world on notice. To crowds in Seoul gathered to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Republic of Korea, 78-year-old President Syngman Rhee said...
Captain Austin J. King of San Rafael, Calif, banked his heavy-bellied C46 over Seoul airport one night this week, pushed the stick forward and prepared to land. Suddenly the pilot noticed that the plane's hydraulic system was out of order, and that one of the landing wheels was stuck in its casing. King pried open the trap door in the floor of his cockpit, wriggled into the narrow passage in the wing of his aircraft and tried to lower the wheel by hand. For 90 minutes he wrestled in the darkness of the wing while his copilot...
Shortly before, the plotters were the respected "champions of the masses." Lee Sung Yup, now accused as ringleader, was North Korea's Justice Minister and mayor of Seoul during the 1950 Communist occupation. Pae Choi, an officer trained in the Soviet army, supervised the Reds' "guerrilla guidance bureau," and helped plan the Koje prisoners' riots. Cho Yun Nyong was Pyongyang's deputy Propaganda Minister. Im Hwa directed the Korea-Soviet Cultural Society. Last week, in North Korea's first major purge trials, these and six others drew the death penalty. Two other "plotters...