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Behind a Ridge. When the Communists invaded Seoul, Hedge headed south to see what he could do to help the Army. Wearing the same threadbare seersucker suit he had worn when fleeing Seoul, he was soon a familiar sight at General William Dean's 24th Division headquarters...
...soldiers in the 24th Infantry Division, and we greatly depend upon your magazine to inform us of our progress in other sectors, as we seldom know what is going on outside our immediate area...
...within four miles of Kyongju. The Reds seized nearly the whole of the Yongchon-Pohang road and brought the Yongchon-Kyongju road under interdiction fire. Since General Walker had no reserves and could spare no front-line troops from any other sector, he was forced to pull the 24th Division (first U.S. division committed in Korea) from a rest area and send it back to battle in the northeast. The 24th's commander, Major General John Church, looked very sick of the war when he conferred with the Marines' Brigadier General Edward Craig, who did not look very...
Rest for the Weary. On the Nak-tong front, the Communists' Changnyong bridgehead was gone, liquidated in fierce fighting by the Marines and the 24th Division. To the north, at Hyonpung, the enemy still had a small force of about 2,000 men on the east bank of the river, but mopping them up would be no problem. That, however, would not be the 24th's job. The 24th was being relieved by the fresh 2nd Infantry Division, which had just arrived in Korea...
Since July 3, when its advance elements had been committed (in two-company strength) south of Seoul, the 24th had been fighting without respite. Now it was entitled to rest, for a while, on its laurels. On a quick visit to the front last week, Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton ("Lightning Joe") Collins paid his tribute: "The 24th has written one of the most glorious pages in military history with its actions in Korea...