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...week's end, some 30,000 Reds had poured around the right flank of the 2nd Division's horseshoe position, and were setting up roadblocks several miles to the south. The 2nd Division fought back, showing no fear of entrapment...
...toward Wonju. Despite MacArthur's statement that vast numbers of Chinese were in the area, the local U.S. commander found himself confronted by only four "well-equipped and well-fed" North Korean divisions, but they were quite enough to give him trouble. Wonju was defended by the U.S. 2nd Division (which had taken a terrible beating in the Chinese November offensive), plus French, Dutch and South Korean units. They were supplied by airdrop from C-119s ("Flying Boxcars") and smaller transports which landed on a makeshift airstrip and took out wounded...
Married. Henry (Mr. Roberts) Fonda, 45, actor; and Susan Blanchard, 22,cinema starlet, stepdaughter of Producer-Songwriter Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein 2nd; he for the third time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
Hardest hit of all U.S. forces was the Army's 2nd Infantry Division, which bore the brunt of the heavy Chinese attack at the Chongchon River. It lost 4,131 men. Others...
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...