The U.S. military on Wednesday commemorated the 75th anniversary of an operation rescuing Korean children orphaned in the winter of 1950, when North Korean communist troops threatened to take Seoul.

How 14,000 people crammed into a ship’s cargo hold fled hostile forces in Korea. And the miracle of five births during the journey.

Continues: The war for Korea, 1945-1950. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2005. In The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning, the author, a military historian argued that the conflict ...