Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forces on the west began pulling back early, but on the east, four days seem to have elapsed between the Red breakthrough and the order to the X Corps (7th and 3rd Divisions and the marines) to try to fight their way to the coast. At week's end, it seemed doubtful that the U.N. forces could get out of Korea without a very severe mauling...
Skipping lunch, MacArthur boarded the SCAP for an air reconnaissance along the border. The SCAP took MacArthur over the Communist stronghold at Sinuiju, the Suiho power site, and the whole length of the lower Yalu to Hyesanjin, where the 7th Division had reached the river. At Hyesanjin, the SCAP swooped down and waggled its wings in salute. Then it headed southeast for Tokyo...
...attack sector extended some 70 miles across Korea's waist eastward from a point on the Yellow Sea below Chongju. The U.S. 2nd, 24th and 25th Divisions jumped off, alongside the R.O.K. 1st, 6th, 7th and 8th and the British 27th Brigade. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division was held in reserve. The offensive involved about 100,000 Allied troops against about 125,000 of the enemy, mostly Chinese...
...brazen clang of cymbals which dismally reminded the G.I.s of the surprise Chinese attack in early November. The South Koreans lost all of their ground north of Tokchon, and the town as well. Said a U.S. officer: "We can only assume that the R.O.K. II Corps [6th, 7th and 8th Divisions] disintegrated." The 1st Cavalry Division had to be rushed up to prevent a breakthrough. One company of the 25th Division was overrun ("There's damned little of that company left," the assistant division commander said). An artillery battery of the 2nd Division was overrun. For the moment...
...front, which covered all the rest of the looping Allied line to the east coast, the enemy showed no such fight. The marines, probing carefully north along both sides of the Changjin reservoir, took the town of Udam on a western arm of the lake. On the Yalu, the 7th Division, moving west, extended its river frontage to ten miles. On the east coast, South Koreans seized the important but ruined port of Chongjin, pushed on north...