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This week the resumption agreement was formally signed, and the expectation was that the top delegations would meet within 48 hours for the first truce talks in two months. It remained to be seen whether the Communists would go back to their demands for an armistice line on the 38th parallel. If they did, the talks would be deadlocked again...
...Communist mine. Mines, cheap to lay, hard to find and hazardous to hit, are the real peril of the Korean seas. Communists lay them at night from sampans, frigates, barges and junks. They even drift them downriver. The location and dispersion of mines on the east coast above the 38th parallel indicate that some may be sown by Russian submarines...
...cease-fire prospects brightened once again, two things appeared certain. One was that the U.S. has no intention of settling on the 38th parallel, but will insist on the present battle line, though willing to give & take a little. The other is that if the Reds reject peace, and U.N. forces push forward in a full-scale offensive, there is only one safe place they could stop: the Pyongyang-Wonsan line across the narrow waist of North Korea. At that place, there would be no doubt...
Demand & Supply. In Korea, the 2nd Division's 38th Regiment requisitioned a portable generator and two typewriters, later received a candle and two pencils...
...clock one morning last week, the heavy tread of a Chinese artillery barrage marched across a Korean hillside near the 38th parallel. Sitting in a slit trench, a U.S. private caught the blast of a shell exploding in front of him. A tiny, singing splinter drove through his skull and lodged in his brain. In the foggy depths of consciousness, the private heard his buddy screaming, "Medics, damn it! Medics...