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...concentration of U.S. fire laid down on the enemy around the Hungnam evacuation perimeter dwarfed anything ever seen before in Korea. As the beachhead dwindled to a few square miles, with only rear guards of the 3rd and 7th Divisions fighting ashore, U.S. self-propelled guns, howitzers, heavy mortars and flak wagons put out a tremendous weight of metal per mile of front. Behind them, the Seventh Fleet's warships sent in their own barrage from the battleship Missouri (whose nine 16-in. guns can fire one-ton projectiles more than 20 miles) and from cruisers, destroyers and rocket...
...Line Able" below Pyongyang, and when that failed to hold, withdrew to "Line Baker," just below the 38th parallel. Since this line would become untenable as soon as the sluggish Chinese were ready to strike, the next move would be to "Position Charlie"-which will consist only of two beachhead perimeters, one around Seoul and Inchon, the other one at Pusan (see map) which U.N. forces still hold. If the Chinese move in while the allies hold perimeters at Seoul and Pusan, they will expose themselves to the same sort of flanking situation that routed the North Koreans last September...
...French and pro-French civil population has been evacuated by sea, the Moncay airfield destroyed. The terrain held by the French is complex-a network of dikes, soggy paddy fields and island-like villages fringed with bamboo and banana trees. Inside this area (slightly larger than the Pusan beachhead held by the U.S. in Korea last August) are hidden pockets of Communist troops, in some places at battalion strength (600 to 700 men). For the moment they confine themselves to road sabotage, raids on isolated French forts, night visits to villages for rice...
...occupation forces had destroyed it. Now, only partly rebuilt, and held by a thin garrison of Foreign Legionnaires, Moroccans and Vietnamese, Laokay looked untenable. It was under Communist mortar fire. Its abandonment and the retreat of its garrison 160 miles down the Red River valley to the Hanoi-Haiphong beachhead seemed likely...
...French were regrouping in a beachhead around Hanoi and the nearby port of Haiphong. They were pulling out of difficult mountain and jungle terrain for the flat, open, rice-rich lower Red River valley. They hoped to hold a perimeter extending 160 miles around the river's mouth. They were waiting for U.S. tanks and planes and troops from France...