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RICHARD T. SPOFFORD...
...TIME likes Commander Spofford's version better than the Associated Press's, which TIME used...
Last week U.S. naval officers revealed that the premature fall of Wonsan had probably spared U.S. troops a very messy landing indeed. Captain Richard T. Spofford, in charge of minesweeping operations at Wonsan, told newsmen that the North Korean port had been blocked off by a vast field of 2,000 to 3,000 well-designed Soviet mines running 30 miles...
...Spofford said that his first sweep of the Wonsan area ran into such heavy concentrations that "I could see we would never get in there." He ordered the three minesweepers of Mine Division 32 to turn back. "My formation is going in," replied Lieut. Commander Bruce Hyatt, commander of the division. Two of Hyatt's vessels promptly struck mines and went down with a loss...
Charles M. Spofford, a former New York lawyer, listened to all arguments and said little. But the U.S. position was pretty well known by last week. It runs something like this...