Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Red air force was out of sight, U.S. airmen concentrated on bombing North Korean communications. Despite bad flying weather, Superforts raided Seoul's railroad marshaling yards, interrupting traffic from the north to the southern battlefront, and blasted industrial targets near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. From a secret U.S. airbase built in four days, F80 Shooting Star jets attacked tanks and transports around Taejon; the highway northeast of Taejon was lined with burning vehicles. Other U.S. planes attacked Communist engineers who were trying to repair destroyed bridges across the Kum River...
Toward week's end, the Red air force cautiously reappeared. Over Taejon, four patrolling U.S. F-80s met four Yak fighters, shot down three; other Yaks tried to intercept U.S. B-29s on their mission to Seoul, giving them, in the words of a U.S. briefing officer, "a pretty good scrap." Airfields previously deserted were again abustle with Red aircraft...
...Reds were doing their best to defend their airfields and oil depots. Near Seoul, U.S. planes drew fire from a large number of 20-mm. antiaircraft guns and from some guns above 50-mm. ; bombing oil tanks at Wonson, U.S. airmen met what they believed to be their first radar-controlled antiaircraft fire in Korea...
...east, where the mountains rise abruptly out of the Japan Sea, there are few good harbors. On the western side of the peninsula, the mountains slope gently into the sea and natural harbors are numerous, but their usefulness is reduced by huge tides. Inchon, the port of Seoul is bedeviled by 29-foot tides. The best harbor is Pusan, now held by the US from which in 1592 the Koreans sent a turtle-shaped ship, the world's first ironclad, to beat the invading Japanese...
...entirely confined to July and August. The heavy concentration of rainfall is welcomed in the wide, southern valleys, which contain three times as much rice paddy land as the North, and where two crops a year of rice, barley, wheat or rye are harvested. Heart of the South is Seoul, which lies among granite hills overlooking the lordly Han River. The Japanese built wide avenues and modern buildings in Seoul's westernized center, but most of the city's side streets are unpaved alleys bordered by drab wooden shops. Even in the city's center...