Word: japan
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...formal proclamation, the President had most of the powers necessary for severe mobilization. Some had been given to him by Congress since Korea, others had been put on the books before or during World War II and remained in effect because the state of war with Germany and Japan has never been ended. The proclamation was intended to be a rallying cry at home and a notice to the rest of the world that the U.S. would once more rise to its calling as democracy's arsenal...
Early last week, the last units of the X Corps column reached Hamhung after a skillful fighting retreat from the Changjin reservoir to the Sea of Japan. Some of the survivors wore colored silk scarves and hoods made from the parachutes of Major General William H. Tunner's life-saving airlift. Some of the marine dead were buried in a cemetery at Hamhung, under mounds of raw red clay topped by white crosses. The marine commander, Major General Oliver P. Smith, uttered a brief and moving tribute, chaplains of three faiths said prayers, a rifle salute rang...
...flight Wood himself was forced to fly back to base on trim tabs after Chinese ground fire had crippled the control surface of his elevators. But in four days Combat Cargo Command lifted 2,650 casualties off the improved airstrip at Hagaru and whisked them off to hospitals in Japan...
Tunner set up headquarters at Ashiya air base in southern Japan, brought with him, as usual, assistants of long standing. Tunner's chief of staff Colonel Glen R. Birchard had been with him in Germany. Both his communications officer, Colonel Manuel Hernandez, and his operations officer, Colonel Robert ("Red") Forman, were holdovers from the days of the Hump. Says Tunner: "When we start a new airlift, we start in a hell of a hurry. It is a whole lot easier to start with people you know...
...shan, 65, onetime Chinese war hero; in Peking. Little, shaven-polled General Ma was both an illiterate, sharpshooting militarist (who bragged that he could shoot birds from a galloping horse) and a man of cultivated tastes (he fancied Mongolian silks and had staffmen read poetry aloud to him). Against Japan's march on Manchuria in 1931, he led the only serious resistance in North China to the invaders, then sold out and was briefly a puppet ruler...