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Northwest of Waegwan, meanwhile, Allied intelligence had reported four to six North Korean divisions building up west of the Naktong. Despite saturation bombing of the area by B-29s (see The Air War), the enemy divisions mounted a massive (30,000 men) and skillful attack from a jump-off point northeast of the target area and smashed due south, capturing Kunwi and Kumhwa, and pushing back the South Korean ist and 6th Divisions. But the courageous South Koreans managed to regroup. They were reinforced by the 27th ("Wolfhound") Regiment of the U.S. 25th Division, which was hurried to the scene...
Meanwhile, B-29s continued to attack the enemy's factories.* Pilots carrying out a follow-up raid on a big oil refinery at Wonsan (one of the principal fuel sources of the North Korean tanks), which had been bombed by B-29s the day before, reported the refinery "a twisted mass of steel." In three big strikes, B-29s had dropped 1,300 tons of bombs on the Chosen Nitrogen Chemical Co. at Hungnam, 126 miles north of the 38th parallel. The Air Force claimed to have severely damaged at least a third of the "buildings, laboratories, power plants...
...week's end the B-29s switched back to tactical targets, hit the battered Seoul rail yards with 100 tons of bombs, and bombed railroad bridges to the south. There were indications that the North Korean air force, which has been lying low for weeks, might be getting reinforcements from Russia. F-80 Shooting Stars, twice raiding Kimpo airfield near Seoul last week, counted more than a score of La7 and Yak fighters which had not been there a few days before. The Americans shot up nine of the newcomers...
...Washington learned last week that much of the information on which the B-29s were basing their bombing of industrial targets had been obtained by Edwin W. Pauley in 1946 when, as U.S. representative on war reparations in Korea, he had made a trip through North Korea, taking photographs and collecting data, in a survey of Japanese assets to guide U.S. reparations policy...
...division fought its last and most important battle on Okinawa, which was to become the base for the B-29s' final murderous raids on Japan. At Okinawa, the division was no longer alone-it was part of an amphibious force with the 6th Marine Division and the XXIV Army Corps. By V-E day, the 1st had won 19 Congressional Medals of Honor, 71 Navy Crosses and a large number of other honors, including 18,337 Purple Hearts...