Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most dramatic news of improvement came from Korea. After 83 days of defeat, retreat and dogged defense on the Pusan perimeter, General MacArthur threw a mixed corps of soldiers and marines into an assault on the Communist-held Korean capital of Seoul-a strike which might well shorten the Korean war by months (see WAR IN ASIA). Washington, also, had its Page One reports of a change for the better. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson was fired by an irate President, and General of the Army George Catlett Marshall came out of retirement to succeed...
...Inchon invasion was aimed at Seoul, through which runs the only good railroad and the best highway from North Korea to the Pusan perimeter. If the U.N. force could put its thumb on this windpipe of the North Korean forces, the Reds would soon run out of ammunition and other supplies. The Inchon invasion faced the North Korean command with a perilous choice: either pull divisions out of the Pusan perimeter in an effort to hold Seoul, or stay in the south and continue to fight Walker while Red supplies dwindled away...
...Seoul City Sue" [TiME...
...here in Japan, have been receiving her broadcasts each evening at 2130 hours at 970 kilocycles. Her voice is anything but "honeyed." A great many of us here believe her to be one of the "Lost in Action" missionaries reported missing soon after the fall of Seoul...
...Official Army sources have now identified "Seoul City Sue" as Mrs. Ann Wallace Suhr, a former American Methodist missionary teacher, who left the mission in the 1930s to marry a Korean leftist. Missionary ex-colleagues believe that Mrs. Suhr broadcasts "under duress" and is "trying to save the life of her husband, and probably her own as well, by broadcasting for the Communists...