Word: ambushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Halloween the 8th Regiment of the U.S. ist Cavalry Division was ambushed by Chinese Communist troops near Unsan in North Korea (TIME, Nov. 13). Long after the savage Halloween party had ended, survivors of the ambush continued to filter back to U.S. lines. Last week TIME Correspondent Hugh Moffett helped welcome to safety a party of weary troopers who had spent nearly seven days in Communist territory. His report...
Late that afternoon tank radios came on the air from the ambush area, informed Division Headquarters that nearly 800 troopers were still holding out, trapped on a ridge near Unsan. Helicopters flew in to them, brought out 20 of the most seriously wounded. Twice, ist Cavalry Division reinforcements tried to break through to the trapped remnants, but each time the relief columns ran into "stonewall" resistance...
...Withdrawing several miles to lure U.N. troops into ambush...
...Barrow called for an air strike and an artillery barrage. For 18 hours U.S. planes rained rockets, explosive bombs and napalm fire bombs on the area in front of Barrow's outfit. First scores, then hundreds, then thousands of Red soldiers were seen running from their place of ambush. When the holocaust was over, Barrow's company and the marines behind them walked through the wreckage...
Other casualties among correspondents in Korea last week were Philip Potter of the Baltimore Sun and Jean de Premonville of Agence France-Presse, who were wounded slightly when they ran into a guerrilla ambush during a night drive from Yongsan to Pusan. Three other correspondents who were with them, including the New York Herald- Tribune's Homer Bigart, escaped injury...