Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the Eighth Army announced that the Reds were "exploiting" a breakthrough south of Kumhwa on the central front. A Chinese division, supported by cavalry, achieved this penetration in the face of intense artillery fire...
Some observers had the same shivery feeling that accompanied the Chinese breakthrough of last November and the wholesale U.N. retreat that followed. But the situation this time was quite different. Largely as a result of General Ridgway's morale-boosting, the Eighth Army was no longer suffering from "bugout fever" (an overquick tendency to retreat in case of trouble). Instead of being strung out in vulnerable "pursuit formation," Ridgway had been advancing carefully, compactly, on constant guard against surprise attacks and flank threats. Moreover, when they struck in November, the Chinese were fresh, confident, unhurt. Now they had been...
...Defense Department last week reported 2,424 more U.S. casualties in Korea, most of which occurred during the Chinese Communist breakthrough seven weeks ago. The new report, running well behind actual casualty figures, brought announced U.S. losses in 6½ months of war to 45,137 men and, since the Chinese attack, to 12,695 dead, wounded and missing. The breakdown...
MacArthur's headquarters insisted that losses in the Korean breakthrough were not out of line in comparison with those suffered in similar operations in other wars. There was something to be said for this argument when figures were compared with losses in World War II's Battle of the Bulge. In that bitter battle, in one week alone, U.S. casualties were...
Fare: $700. The U.S. 24th Infantry and 1st Cavalry Divisions were now stationed on the perilous right flank, replacing the fearfully mauled U.S. 2nd Division. Caught on the shoulder of the great Communist breakthrough, the 2nd would have to be reconstituted before it could fight again. It had lost a third of its combat strength in killed, wounded and missing; its 9th Regiment, first and hardest hit in the Red onslaught, was almost completely destroyed. The division's 237 officer casualties included five doctors and two chaplains...