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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1950
Page
3
Vikings triumph in the Little Bowl Classic as described in the sports section, highlighting key plays, standout performers, and final outcome. Details on scoring leaders and turning points are provided within the article’s sports coverage.
A massive blaze in downtown Zanesville Ohio started around 10 p.m. destroying the A. E. Starr Co department store and igniting the Citizens National Bank Building. Firemen from ten cities battled the fire for hours, with damage already listed at one million dollars.
The article notes pressure over using the atomic bomb and reports twenty thousand Marines and the 7th Division advancing toward the Hungnam beaches. They face a surround by about a hundred thousand North Koreans and Manchurian forces in subfreezing conditions as the page continues on another page.
Naval forces completed evacuation of United Nations ground troops from Wonsan as Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported. Four American Mustangs engaged four Russian-type MEG jet planes near the Manchurian border before the enemy retreated. The British Admiralty announced 7000 soldiers and civilians evacuated from the Pyongyang area by sea under air and destroyer protection, with wounded, non military personnel and refugees moved from Chinnamipo.
About 20,000 American Marines and infantrymen linked up with a rescue column south of the Chosin Reservoir and rolled toward Hungnam. The breakout from the hills near Koto-ri and the 26 mile trek northwest of Hamhung aimed at an evacuation by naval forces as Third Division units guarded the route and enemy resistance eased.
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