Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operations shack of Seoul airport, a stocky little U.S. first lieutenant checked over his flight papers and manifest, then turned to leave. He zipped up his blue nylon flight jacket and cracked, "One more milk run." It was an old phrase that was being heard more & more. He clamped a cold and soggy cigar butt between his teeth, and strode out across the apron toward his big, twin-boom C-119 Flying Box Car for another round trip to Japan. There was no telling how many more he would make...
...Quonset-hut courtroom in Seoul last week, an eight-man court-martial meted out punishment: two years in prison and dismissal from the service for 2nd Lieut. James D. Goff. Goff smiled in relief: he had had good reason to expect a much heavier sentence. Last December, with three Negro enlisted men, he had entered a Korean's house, presumably looking for stolen property, and had pistol-whipped to death an innocent Korean Presbyterian minister who protested...
Christian missionaries in Korea and friends of Pang Wha Il, the victim, were indignant. Said the Rev. Chun Pil Sun, of the Seoul presbytery: "The American military army obviously places different value on the lives of Koreans and Americans ... A Korean's life apparently means nothing." Added a U.S. missionary in Korea: "I am ashamed to face the Christians I know here...
General James A. Van Fleet, retiring commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, was given a farewell title: honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the Seoul National University. Among those who gathered to hear Dr. Van Fleet's acceptance speech: the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea...
...hero, but his protest did no good. An antiaircraft private, even one about to be decorated, is not encouraged to argue with his division commander. So one day last week Private Walter N. Johnson was whisked from his battle post on Korea's western front and flown to Seoul. Bands were playing bravely as the 21-year-old Nebraskan was lined up with seven high-ranking U.N. officers at Eighth Army headquarters. Then His Serene Highness, Siamese Prince Pridi-debyabongs Davakul, pinned to the private's chest the Silver Medal of the Crown of. Thailand. What...