Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offensive took abandoned Chunchon, last important crossroads town on the central front below the 38th parallel. Next day, on the front above Seoul, Uijongbu fell, also without a fight. The enemy seemed to have only one considerable force left in South Korea-perhaps 60,000 strong-guarding the two highways on the west side of the peninsula leading to Pyongyang...
...catch this 60,000. On Friday, General Ridgway staged Operation Tomahawk to do the job. A fleet of Flying Boxcars and C-46s dropped some 3,300 paratroopers of the 187th Regimental Combat Team (11th Airborne Division), plus attached Rangers, on the flatlands around Munsan, 22 miles northwest of Seoul and twelve miles below the 38th parallel. Under Brigadier General Frank S. Bowen Jr., it was the second and biggest paradrop of the Korean war; the first took place last October north of Pyongyang (TIME...
...Seoul residents said that in late February and early March the Communists ordered all men aged 15 to 40 and women 16 to 25 to go north. When the Red rearguards pulled out, they took food and clothing at gunpoint from the Koreans who remained. Last autumn the Communists had taken the best bifeins from Seoul -doctors, teachers and other professionals. This time they took the able-bodied and healthy, leaving the old, the children and the sick...
...Seoul had been heavily damaged last autumn when, after MacArthur's amphibious stroke at Inchon, the Marines and the 7th Infantry Division took it against savage North Korean resistance. This time there was more damage, from hundreds of shells hurled by U.N. artillery from the south bank of the Han. The Bun Chon shopping district, not badly mauled last autumn, was now flattened. Ambassador John J. Muccio's official residence had taken two more direct hits. The great red- painted, brass-studded gates of the embassy compound were leveled and buried in a welter of rubble. None...
Last week's recapture of Seoul-temporarily, at least-magnifies the refugee problem. A CAC executive said that although a few of the people who remained in Seoul had mysteriously managed to stay as "fat as quail," the vast majority were suffering from malnutrition. A U.S. freighter with 77,000 bags of rice was already lying off Inchon Harbor. Orphanages will quickly be set up for Seoul's swarms of homeless children...