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Usage examples of "pusan".

Ridgway and MacArthur, Pusan, Inchon and the Yalu - their emotional resonance was gone.

Toby played Taegu and Pusan and Chonju, and he found solace in the laughter of the soldiers.

There, they were told, they would board a Naval Air Transport Command Douglas R5D, which would depart at 1400, and after several inter-mediate stops-Osaka, Kobe, and Sasebo-would deposit them at K-l Airfield, Pusan, South Korea, where they would be met by a Marine liaison officer who would get them to the First Marine Brigade (Provisional), where Aug9-2 would be disestablished, and they would be as-signed billets in the brigade according to the needs of the brigade at the moment.

MacArthur struggled to hold the critical southern port of Pusan to buy time until reinforcements arrived.

It had become, however, more of a passenger and freight terminal than a base for the fighters and light bombers it had been when the Pusan Perimeter needed fighting aircraft to keep from being pushed into the sea.

He had yea paperwork on his desk, and sitting there, rolling a pencil back and forth and thinking about that old geezer out someplace in his pick-up truck, that old geezer with white hair buzzed flat in a crewcut and a mechanical arm on account of he'd lost the real one at a place called Pusan in an undeclared war which had happened when most of the current crop of Viet Nam vets were still shitting yellow in their didies .

Allegedly scrapped in Pusan, Korea, two years after being spotted by Dewhurst in Singapore.