Word: airstrips
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...already suffered heavy casualties in battles with the encircling Communists. They had heard the screams of their comrades when the Reds lobbed phosphorous grenades into truckloads of U.S. wounded. When the order came to start south, the enemy was already closing in on Hagaru's makeshift airstrip, whence thousands of wounded and frostbite victims had been flown out. The last plane waited an extra hour for one desperately wounded...
...Command had repeatedly provided the beleaguered troops with an aerial bridge to their bases. Day after day "flying boxcars" had swung low over the column to drop ammunition, medical supplies and rations. And eight miles back up the road at Hagaru, C-475 had set down on an improvised airstrip to pick up long lines of wounded and frostbitten men. Said Combat Cargo Command Pilot Lieut. James Wood: "The marines scraped out the field at Hagaru one afternoon while we circled over it." Every plane in Wood's squadron was damaged by enemy small-arms fire during operations...
When the two men got together to say goodbye at the airstrip, MacArthur was graciousness itself once more. He stood at attention while the President pinned a fourth oakleaf cluster to the Distinguished Service Medal on MacArthur's open-necked shirt. MacArthur shook hands firmly, smiled and said, "Goodbye, sir. Happy landings. It's been a real honor to talk to you." The Independence took off for Hawaii at 11 a.m. The general was on his way to Tokyo five minutes later...
Fighter pilots, taking off under fire from the U.S. airstrip, began strafing the encircling Reds almost before their wheels were up. For safety they spent the first night at Taegu airfield, but came back to Pohang to fight again the next day. After delays due to a broken bridge and enemy ambushes, a U.S. armored rescue force arrived, led by Brigadier General J. Sladen Bradley, a tough fighter who rides into battle in his undershirt. But when Bradley got there, the Reds were in the town of Pohang, a burning ruin. Southeast of the town, ground crews, clerks and cooks...
...days before he arrived in Formosa last week (see Danger Zones). Douglas MacArthur paid his second visit within a month to the Korean fighting front. MacArthur's plane put down at a newly completed dirt airstrip in South Korea. The general alighted, talked briefly with South Korean President Syngman Rhee, Prime Minister Shin Sung Mo, and U.S. Ambassador John J. Muccio. Said MacArthur to the Prime Minister: "You take care of the President. We are going to take care of your country...