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Tentative plans for the April 28th weekend include a "Pops" Concert in Memorial Hall and a dance in the Indoor Athletic Building featuring a big name band...
...occupation commander, Reischauer said, left post war initiative to Russia and North Korean Communists. Hodges evacuated all Japanese residents in South Korea, including technicians, leaving the southern area without the technical know-how necessary for postwar reconstruction. Russia, on the other hand, sent Soviet technicians north of the 28th parallel; and the Russian sponsored Pyongyang government enacted immediate land reform...
Military handbooks allow 160 days for readying a landing of such magnitude. Beginning Aug. 16th, Almond drafted the plans for the Inchon landing by the 28th, had his X Corps (the U.S. 1st Marine and 7th Infantry Divisions plus South Korean units) on the sea and moving to the target by Sept. 10, went ashore on the 15th, secured the Inchon-Seoul-Kimpo area and completed his mission by October 7th-two weeks ahead of schedule and a total of 53 days from start to finish of brilliantly executed Operation Chromite...
...local scale, a better than ordinary example of preparation was being carried on in a building on New York City's East 28th Street. There General Lucius Clay, U.S.A. (ret.), topflight military staff planner, the man who stubbornly steered Berlin through the Russian blockades, who was now chairman of the state's Civilian Defense Commission, earnestly turned his mind to the moment when the awful crisis might arrive...
...East 28th Street. Could the civil defenders rise so systematically to such an incalculable emergency? The answer was to be found, in large part, in the aged, granite building on East 28th Street...