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...French objections to rearming the Germans. But no one quite expected that Defense Minister Jules Moch would toss into the parley a new, complex idea that went far beyond military organization into international politics and economics. Its essence: West German rearmament must not be above the regimental or battalion level, and then only within the framework of a West European federation, subject to the authority of a West European parliament and based on the Schuman Plan for integrating the West European coal & steel industry...
Farther south on the east coast the U.S. Marines had also run into unexpected trouble. A Marine battalion was sent toward Kojo, 30 miles southeast of Wonsan, to defend a rail line threatened...
...Wonsan, U.S. Marines were moving south to reinforce the battered spearhead near Kojo, and a battalion of R.O.K. Marines had landed below Kojo to form the southern arm of a pincers closing in on the "Diamond Mountain Gang." Other U.S. Marines were pushing north from Wonsan toward Hamhung. At Hamhung the Marines might face a bitter fight to keep open supply lines to the R.O.K. I Corps (the 3rd and Capitol Divisions) and to the U.S. 7th Infantry Division, which had completed an unopposed landing at Iwon, 80 miles up the east coast from Hamhung. Originally scheduled to come ashore...
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...joined an armada of 80 C119s and 40 C-47s which carried the men and equipment of the 11th Airborne Division's 187th Regiment. From Seoul's Kimpo Airport the airborne task force flew deep into North Korea. There, while MacArthur's plane circled overhead, one battalion of paratroopers dropped on Sukchon, 26 miles northwest of Pyongyang, another battalion at Sunchon, 28 miles northeast of Pyongyang...