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...prevent this, U.N. commanders sent the U.S. ist Cavalry Division racing toward Unsan to bolster the sagging R.O.K. units. At Unsan the cavalrymen ran into a Red buzz saw (see below). One field hospital south of Unsan treated more than 500 U.S. casualties in a single day. But, though badly cut up, the ist Cavalry Division averted a Communist breakthrough -at least for the time being...
...Someone Woke Me." Last week the past seemed to rise up and haunt the cavalrymen. On its way to bolster up crumbling R.O.K. forces in northwest Korea, the division's 8th Regiment dug in for the night near Unsan, 80 miles north of Pyongyang. When morning came, the few troopers who were awake could not believe their ears. Said Pfc. Henry Tapper: "Someone woke me up and asked me if I could hear horses on the gallop. I couldn't hear anything, but then bugles started playing, far away." Pfc. William O'Rama, who was sitting...
...Started Running." At first the cavalrymen offered no organized resistance. Said one trooper: "I couldn't see anything until a tank came along. I climbed on and fell off three times or was pulled off by others trying to get on. Then the tank burst into flames and we all started running." Most of the men who escaped the confused, swirling battle swam the icy Kuryong River, fled to Ipsok, a village nine miles south of Unsan...
More than twelve hours after the attack, the relief columns gave up. By that time more than 500 cavalrymen had filtered through the Red lines to safety. To the men still on the ridge went orders to get out as best they could...
Next day a U.S. I Corps spokesman admitted that the Reds had captured 13 U.S. tanks, announced that 500 cavalrymen must be considered dead or captured. Said one newsman conservatively: "It is probably the most costly battle U.S. forces have fought north of the 38th parallel." A bitter cavalry officer gave a more exact description: "It was a massacre like the one which hit Custer...