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...junction with the 7th Infantry below Suwon. MacArthur announced the fall of Seoul eleven days after the Inchon landing (street fighting continued for three days more). While the Eighth Army, streaming out of the old perimeter in all directions, mopped up the liberated countryside, the South Koreans crossed the 38th parallel...
...Seoul, his trapped divisions in the southwest fell apart. On Friday, U.N. communiques called it a "rout." By week's end, the avalanche had run its thunderous course. North Korean organized resistance had ended, U.N. forces were mopping up isolated remnants, the first U.N. division had crossed the 38th parallel...
Across the Parallel. Almost three months from the day it had fallen, Seoul was in U.N. hands. The North Koreans pulled out northward toward Uijongbu, a road and rail center 18 miles below the 38th parallel. Marine planes flattened the town with Tiny Tim rockets (1,284 Ibs. weight, 11.75 inches in diameter). One X Corps column raced eastward from Seoul to the Ichon area, where it linked up with South Korean troops sweeping the east coast...
This week the South Korean 3rd and Capitol Divisions stabbed across the 38th parallel and up the Sea of Japan coast. Their initial thrust took Yangyang, seven miles north of the border, and reached Kansong, more than 20 miles farther on. Red fortifications were mostly unmanned and resistance negligible. Captured North Koreans said they had been ordered to fall back to Wonsan, 70 miles above the 38th parallel, for a stand...
Last week thousands of Korean Communist soldiers scampered over the 38th parallel which had divided Korea since 1945. There the Reds hoped to sit in safety while Washington and Lake Success argued over a decision which should have been made weeks before...