Word: 24th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds took Namwon, Kwangju and Mokpo-then, wheeling east, Posong, Sunchon, Yosu, Hadong, Ponggye. Elements of the Americans' tired and battered 24th Infantry Division, which needed a rest, and of the ist Cavalry Division, which could ill be spared from the central front, were wheeled 60 miles south to meet the threat. After the fall of Chinju, the next likely enemy objective was Masan-27 miles from Pusan...
When war broke out in Korea, rugged, good-natured Bill Dean was in command of the 24th Infantry Division in Japan...
...week's end the ist Cavalry Division, which had landed earlier at Pohang (see below), arrived to give the 24th the relief it so sorely needed and deserved. The new arrivals were fresh and eager. Their commander, Major General Hobart Gay, promised a bottle of champagne to any man who got a Communist tank. As Gay's men moved up to the front, they met the gaunt, bone-tired G.I.s of the 24th Division, some barefooted, some almost naked, all staggering from exhaustion...
...Negro troops last week scored the first sizable American ground victory of the Korean war, and incidentally provided an answer to the Communist charge that Americans were warring against the "colored" races of Asia. The Negroes were men of the famed 24th Infantry Regiment...
...24th captured Yechon, an important rail town on the U.S. right flank, 6 miles northeast of Taejon. Yechon fell after a 16-hour battle that started when the Negro G.I.s moved out under a barrage of mortar and artillery fire in the afternoon. They advanced steadily throughout the night, finally entered the burning town at dawn next...