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...troops without a fight last week before the Red drive began) and at other points farther west. On a 15-mile front, they pushed across the Imjin River, wading the waist-high water. In the extreme west, U.N. forces pulled back twelve miles to help hold the Imjin bridgehead in check. In the first twelve hours the Communist attack spread across 50 miles of front, in 24 hours across 100 miles...
...Peking radio admitted that Seoul had fallen, but called it a "temporary withdrawal." General Ridgway had been wisely unwilling to accept the casualties of a frontal attack. Instead, he had put a bridgehead across the Han east of the capital. When the bridgehead outflanked the Red defenders, they pulled...
...24th Infantry Division and the British brigade then launched a limited attack of their own, to deepen and widen their bridgehead over the Chong-chon. The charging doughfeet made gains up to four miles, and found 600 enemy dead, presumably killed by Allied artillery. East of the marines, the 7th Division's commander, Major General David Barr, said his reconnaissance indicated he could go forward 30 miles, but he was not going to do so until his flanks were secure. On the east coast, the R.O.K. Capitol Division, operating with horse cavalry, scored a long advance north of Kilchu...
Rest for the Weary. On the Nak-tong front, the Communists' Changnyong bridgehead was gone, liquidated in fierce fighting by the Marines and the 24th Division. To the north, at Hyonpung, the enemy still had a small force of about 2,000 men on the east bank of the river, but mopping them up would be no problem. That, however, would not be the 24th's job. The 24th was being relieved by the fresh 2nd Infantry Division, which had just arrived in Korea...
...which made their ordeal of the previous week seem a picnic by contrast. But the Marines won the ridge, and after that the enemy broke under ferocious air strafing. The first powerful push of the infantry task force under General Church carried three miles and almost cut the Red bridgehead in two. Great swarms of Reds began trying to get back across the river by any possible means: on rafts, over the girders of demolished bridges, by wading, by swimming. The angry U.S. planes followed them; the invaders died by hundreds in the green water and on gleaming sand spits...