Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...later explained that the line was only a screen of "isolated outposts" which could be abandoned if necessary. South Korean units were already fighting regrouped North Koreans below the 38th parallel. Tokyo said it was a "misnomer" to call such North Koreans guerrillas-they were organized enemy spearheads...
...prestige had been sorely crippled in Korea, and this week all evidence pointed to a secret high-level decision that Korea was no place to repair it. It was noteworthy that the Eighth Army made no effort to throw a defense line across the peninsula; Eighth Army spokesmen denied any commitment to defend Seoul; and heavy equipment was being loaded rapidly onto ships at Inchon. If Korea were in fact abandoned, it could be done without abandoning the policy of punishing aggression. Mao's China could be effectively punished elsewhere-for example, by blockade and bombardment of the China...
General MacArthur announced that a line from below Chinnampo to the Koksan area had been established (see map), but it was unlikely that such a line could be held, because of its open right flank...
...operation was the lift to Kimpo Airport outside Seoul. Once again Tunner worked for a pulselike beat in operations, and got it. After Kimpo, as U.N. forces drove farther north. Tunner's men flew supplies-mostly gas and rations -into one airfield after another right up the line of advance. For over a month...
Combat Cargo's priority system was a flexible one, permitting fast change when the tactical situation required it-which was often. Last month, when the early winter caught many front-line troops without winter clothing, Combat Cargo offloaded other supplies and flew in tons of shoepacs, parkas, woolen underwear and ski socks. And within hours after the ist Cavalry Division had run into the Chinese counterattack of last Halloween, the airlift had switched from gas and C rations to ammunition and medical supplies. Sometimes, too, the situation called for a fast switch in reverse. Just before the last transport...