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...Army 24th Infantry Division, 146 Army 3rd Infantry Division...
Last week sudden death came to the Little Bulldog. From his command post he was riding to the front north of Seoul, to present unit citations to the 24th Division (first in Korea) and the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade, and a Silver Star to his son, Captain Sam Walker, a 24th Division combat officer. A three-ton truck driven by a South Korean pulled out of line in a southbound column, directly in the path of Walker's jeep. The general's driver could not avoid a collision. Walker was thrown to the road. He was dead when...
Fare: $700. The U.S. 24th Infantry and 1st Cavalry Divisions were now stationed on the perilous right flank, replacing the fearfully mauled U.S. 2nd Division. Caught on the shoulder of the great Communist breakthrough, the 2nd would have to be reconstituted before it could fight again. It had lost a third of its combat strength in killed, wounded and missing; its 9th Regiment, first and hardest hit in the Red onslaught, was almost completely destroyed. The division's 237 officer casualties included five doctors and two chaplains...
...Chinese hordes poured around the Eighth Army's open right flank, the 24th, 2nd and 25th Divisions fell back to the Chongchon and began crossing at Sinanju (see map), where a valuable airfield was lost, Anju and Kunu farther upriver. It was obvious that General Walker would have to keep his whole Eighth Army moving south if it was not to be trapped or rolled up from the flank...
...first day the 24th reached a high river dike south of Chongju, and the next day went on to take the ruined town without a fight. Other divisions gained several miles. The South Koreans pushed eleven miles north of Tokchon...