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Leading the U.N. pack was the R.O.K. 6th Division, which since Sept. 23 had marched nearly 700 miles. Said a U.S. captain attached to the division as a military adviser: "These are tough guys . . . They march at night with hardly any clothes, just a rag around their feet inside their shoes, and it just about freezes me." Just before dusk one evening the "tough guys" of the 6th Division's 7th Regiment pushed through the border town of Chosan, 130 miles north of Pyongyang, and drove to the south bank of the Yalu...
...saber, the roof fell in. Throughout northwest Korea the Communists started unexpectedly strong counterattacks supported by tanks, artillery and mortars. One North Korean force cut the main supply road to Chosan, isolated the R.O.K. 7th Regiment on the Yalu. Three more Red battalions surrounded part of the 6th Division near Onjong, 50 miles south of Chosan. At Unsan, 70 miles north of Pyongyang, a regiment of the R.O.K. ist Division was enveloped by 7,000 Communists. Thirty miles west of Unsan, U.N. air strikes failed to break stubborn North Korean resistance which stalled the drive of the British Commonwealth 27th...
Muscling In. The drive for the Manchurian border was well started. Six hours after the air drop, the R.O.K. 6th Division had linked up with the paratroopers, was rolling northwest from Sunchon. Next day, while 1,800 more paratroopers jumped in to reinforce the Sunchon area, 1st Cavalry Division spearheads raced up from Pyongyang to join the airborne units. Supported by the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade, the cavalrymen and paratroopers began to move up the west coast...
...line with MacArthur's orders, the deepest northern penetrations were made by South Korean troops. On the right flank of the U.S. forces, the R.O.K. 1st, 7th and 8th Divisions joined the R.O.K. 6th Division in a swing northwest of the enemy's main line of retreat, then cut back to the northeast along the Chongchon River. By week's end the 6th Division was north of Huichon, about 50 miles south of Manchuria...
...Korean army had recovered from its panic and was fighting bravely and well on the U.S. right flank. But the U.S. left flank was open: there was a yawning gap between this flank and the west coast. Around it the North Koreans poured two crack divisions, the 4th and 6th (described, in Douglas MacArthur's overoptimistic communiqués of that period, as "roving bands). In a matter of days they swept through the southwestern corner of Korea and raced east for Pusan. They were in sight of Masan, 30 miles from Pusan, before they were stopped...