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Belgian infantrymen were the most recent arrivals. Last Wednesday Korean Premier John M. Chang went down to the docks in Pusan to welcome a 650-man Belgian battalion. With it came 50 volunteers from Luxembourg...
...preceding week a battalion of crack Greek troops, all veterans of guerrilla fighting in their own country, finally got a firsthand look at Asiatic warfare. The Greeks, who went into battle singing, were not impressed. Northeast of Suwon 200 of them stood off a 45-minute attack by 3,000 Chinese Communists. Snapped Sergeant Basilakis Nikolous, who was slightly wounded, "They came at us like wild beasts, and we just cut them down as they came...
...land, enemy resistance was negligible, except at Kumyangjang, where 474 were killed by air strikes and Turks (see The Allies). Later, Chinese resistance stiffened. At week's end, when an armored U.S. task force had slashed within eleven miles of Seoul, the Chinese were counterattacking in battalion strength. They were also using land mines and ambushes...
...Horseshoe. The same was true of Wonju, in the frigid uplands of central Korea. For 16 days, the U.S. 2nd Division (in which a French and a Dutch battalion had been incorporated) had held a horseshoe salient just south of the town, from which the allied force could rake it with artillery. Early last week, Eighth Army Headquarters announced that the salient was being given up in order to shorten and straighten the allied line. The withdrawal was carried out under artillery and air protection which prevented enemy interference...
Square-jawed Captain James Vernon Harvester, 30, commander last year of the 315th Signal Construction Battalion, had always wanted to be a minister. In 1945, after a year in the South Pacific, he began studying, earned his D.D. from Emory University, put in two years as a pastor in Florida and Georgia...