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...South Korean army, against overwhelming odds, and with no armor, no fighter or bomber aircraft, and no artillery larger than the obsolete M-3 105-mm. howitzer, put up a gallant stand once it had recovered from the initial shock of the Communist attack . . . Under strength and fighting continuously since the morning of June 25, underestimated and looked down upon initially by their American comrades-in-arms, ignored by 90% of the correspondents covering the Korean war, these South Korean troops have written the first pages of their country's military history in a way that will make future...
...Communists were getting starved for new victories, too. North of Taegu, a Red army corps of three divisions tried for four nights on end to barrel their armor down a poplar-lined stretch of road held by Colonel John ("Mike") MichaehV crack 2;th Regiment (see below). After six days & nights in this sector, the mauled Communist divisions pulled back out of U.S. artillery range...
...Armored Slam. For four nights running, Kim slammed his armor at Michaelis' forward elements astride the road just south of the junction. The Red tanks would drive down the road to within 100 yards of the first U.S. foxhole and open flat trajectory fire with their 85-mm. guns; a good many of the shells went screaming down the road, hit the first small elevation in their path and bounced into a nearby hillside, like bowling balls. Michaelis' men, who did not budge under the assault, nicknamed the road, "the bowling alley...
...Mike Michaelis as he sat, bone-tired, against the wall of his culvert command post as automatic weapon fire zinged and buzzed like angry bees around him. "He's trying to scare me into withdrawing and leaving my equipment. Then he can come down the road with his armor. I'm just not going...
...wade across. At night, free from Allied air attack, the North Koreans put tanks across on barges and hastily built log and stone causeways, whose top surfaces were a foot under water and hard to see from the air. Once, in full daylight, under U.S. artillery fire, they put armor across on a pontoon bridge. Time & again, U.S. counterattacks whittled down or obliterated the Communists' east-bank footholds, but they kept on coming...