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...President's friend Omar Bradley, who unfolds a map of Korea every morning at 9130 and points for the President to ground won or lost (red pins for North Korea, blue pins for U.N. forces), had been able to give Harry Truman an assurance: the U.S. beachhead in Korea was now considered safe, and it was only a question of time before the Reds would be back where they belonged. By October, the U.S. offensive might be well under...
...result of the fighting in Korea last week was that the Allied beachhead, although altered a little in size and shape, remained intact. There were no more wholesale withdrawals; there was still a good deal of defensive terrain and plenty of room for deployment of men, arms, supplies. The closest Red thrust to the port of Pusan had been flung back. Thus another week was gained for the U.S. buildup...
...Reds might have taken Pusan if they had struck with greater force on the south coast. But it was too early to feel safe. The North Koreans still held the initiative, still fought with unabated fury -and apparently, with ample reserves-to destroy the U.S. beachhead. They had assembled massive forces aimed at Taegu (see map). Tough, ubiquitous General Walton Walker was still forced to shuttle his units from one crisis to another, like a Dutch boy trying to plug four holes in the dike with two thumbs...
There was little doubt that the final U.N. beachhead in Korea would be smaller than last week's 140-mile defense perimeter. But U.S. troops have held small beachheads before. In 1944, at Anzio, 62,000 U.S. troops crowded onto a beachhead 18 miles wide and 13 miles deep, held it until they had massed enough strength for a breakthrough...
...Staff College. One of the 1st's companies ran off a cold-weather landing exercise in Alaska; a regiment put on an airlift assault on cactus-covered San Nicolas Island off the California coast. If & when the time comes for the U.S. units to break out of the beachhead in Korea, Craig's great store of amphibious know-how will come in handy for assault landings behind the North Korean lines...