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...Hwachon Reservoir area, six miles above the 38th parallel, Colonel Harris' regiment was in a desperate fight for control of floodwaters-a scrap such as U.S. troops had not seen since the early part of 1945, when First Army doughfeet fought through the Hürtgen Forest to seize the Roer River dams in Germany's Rhineland...
...land & sea as well as by air, the allies were doing everything possible to hamper Communist communications to the fighting front. Near Songjin, almost 200 miles north of the 38th parallel on the east coast, 250 British marines went ashore from a naval task force led by the U.S. heavy cruiser St. Paul. While the ships shielded them with a curtain of fire, the commandos mined 100 yards of the Communists' main east coast rail line, blew a trough 16 ft. deep in the roadbed. After seven hours ashore, the British got back on their ship without a casualty...
...MacArthur has to deal with the war at close range. He bears the terrible responsibility for men's lives . . . The real quarrel between the general and his critics is over a simple issue-they propose that he should halt on the 38th parallel. He points out that, as a military proposition, this is not sensible...
...38th parallel is an arbitrary line drawn on the map. It corresponds in no way with the realities of military geography or military necessity...
Night-flying aircraft crews scouting North Korea's roads last week spotted one of the heaviest enemy movements toward the front since the Chinese Communist crossing of the Yalu. More than 2,000 vehicles were headed through the darkness for the Red lines above the 38th parallel. Night after night, and even by day, the ominous traffic to the front continued. U.N. air strikes attacked it but could...