Last week, on the front north of the Punchbowl, a whole battalion of marines—nearly 1,000 men—was moved to a mountainous front-line sector by helicopter, in the largest operation of its kind to date.
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Punchbowl
/ˈpʌnt͡ʃˌboʊl/
Synonyms for "punchbowl"
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Translations
2 translations across 1 languages.
Korean
2 entries- 펀치볼 name (Haenan Basin)
- 해안분지 name (Haenan Basin)
Sample sentences
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Hill 930 here, about 100 miles northeast of Seoul, just above the village of Wontong, towers over a region still called the Punchbowl because that is what it looked like to G.I.'s during the Korean War.[…] "The Korean War is to all accounts and purposes ignored," said Rudy Basurto of Lompoc, Calif., who was a medic with the 45th Division 33 years ago in the Punchbowl.
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Naimo ran to their aid, exposing himself to withering enemy mortar, artillery and machine gun fire sweeping his company’s position: Hill 1052, near what would be called “The Punchbowl,” north of the 38th Parallel.
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Our drive north brings us to Haean-myeon valley, a highland basin in the far northeast of South Korea, and which was nicknamed “the punchbowl” by American-led United Nations forces during the Korean war. Jung, KFS biologist Bak Gippeum and I stroll through the 375-acre National DMZ Botanical Garden, which opened four years ago.
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