Word: angang
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...Allied-German lines swayed and writhed across France, the same towns came again & again into the news as they changed hands-Arras, Amiens, Cambrai, Soissons. Korea was producing another crop of such towns, won and lost in a matter of weeks or days instead of years. Pohang, Angang, Yong-chon, Hyonpung and Changnyong had changed hands at least three times. And such towns as Taegu, the northwestern "turntable," and Masan, the south coast anchor, were in the news day after day, because they were under almost constant threat...
...Gines Perez of San Antonio, Texas, fought the war out here from 1942 to 1945. A mild-looking man with glasses who, like so many other such commanders, doesn't look like a military man, Colonel Perez had his battalion strung out on the road from Kwangju to Angang. For a while, South Korean troops were on his right. Then suddenly, one night, they weren't. The battalion was surrounded and had to fight its way out. That's routine enough. What was unusual about the weird action was that once out of the situation the colonel...
...Angang, all was complete confusion. North Korean, South Korean and American troops were all mixed up, everyone firing in the darkness at everyone else. The fight to the south was filled with incredible feats of heroism; probably the greatest of which was performed by a platoon sergeant who was leading the point infantry platoon as it escorted the tanks out of the village. As the tanks were beginning to cross a bridge, Reds lurking underneath it lobbed two concussion grenades aimed at the tracks of the lead tanks. Dropping his rifle, the sergeant dived toward the grenades. He grabbed...
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