Word: docked
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Panic. While the infantrymen in the line drew back slowly before the Chinese assault, the evacuation at the dockside went on apace. There was no panic, no disorder. But the tempo of the operation stepped up sharply. At the docks themselves, U.S., Norwegian and Japanese merchant ships took on load after load of trucks, tanks, gasoline, rations, dismantled aircraft, jeeps, tents and kitchen stoves. The black, mud-choked roads within the dock area were jammed bumper to bumper with mud-spattered supply trains grinding and slithering down to the ships. The supply convoys passed acres of gasoline drums, quarter-mile...
Ruin & Rubble. The Hungnam dock area itself was already a torn and twisted slag heap of rubble and debris left earlier by U.S. strategic bombing attacks. The concrete warehouses at the dockside had somehow escaped major damage, but most of the rest of the port facilities were in complete ruin-huge gas storage tanks crumpled up like discarded beer cans, power plants stripped of their heavy, concrete walls, their generators rusting slowly away beneath alternate snow and freezing rain. Here & there stood long lines of brand-new, Japanese-made freight cars, their gleaming white sides neatly marked with the insignia...
Free Boat Ride. In the harbor meanwhile, the loading booms creaked and strained from dock to deck, and LCVPs (Landing Craft-"Vehicle, Personnel) churned busily from the beach out to an armada of U.S. Navy ships waiting to take out the troops. The South Korean navy sent one LST in to the beach to pick up several thousand R.O.K. troops, nurses and South Korean civilians. The Koreans wasted no time getting aboard. When they finally stopped getting aboard, the LST was crammed to the gunwales with over 4,000 passengers, including a fair share of the remaining civilian population...
...GEORGE DOCK JR. New York City
...Rangoon last week, ailing, 53-year-old Burma Surgeon Gordon S. Seagrave, dressed in a blue double-breasted suit, sat in the prisoner's dock. He listened attentively, as Assistant Attorney General U Chan Tun Aung droned through a three-count indictment, accused Seagrave of committing high treason by aiding and comforting the rebel Captain Naw Seng in his war against the government...