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Meeting Up. The cavalrymen, firing from their vehicles, drove swiftly through Pyongyang's outer defenses, left the enemy on their flanks to be mopped up by the men who followed them. At 11 a.m. the 5th's 2nd Battalion blasted its way into the southern edge of Pyongyang...
...R.O.K. 6th Division had linked up with the paratroopers, was rolling northwest from Sunchon. Next day, while 1,800 more paratroopers jumped in to reinforce the Sunchon area, 1st Cavalry Division spearheads raced up from Pyongyang to join the airborne units. Supported by the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade, the cavalrymen and paratroopers began to move up the west coast...
Switching Signals. On the western flank of the U.N. army driving into North Korea, the cavalrymen advanced over the 38th parallel along the highway to Kum-chon, a railway center 80 miles southeast of Pyongyang. They ran smack into what they then decided were the strongest defense positions in North Korea. On heights overlooking bends in the highway the Communists had built concealed concrete pillboxes and log revetments-some with walls eight feet thick...
From these carefully prepared positions diehard North Korean soldiers poured fire onto the advancing cavalrymen. Red mines blew the treads off U.S. tanks and convoys were held up under fire for hours at a time. Air and artillery support could not take all the burden off the troops on the ground. Rockets from F80 Shooting Stars set dry grass and bright autumn foliage ablaze, but failed to smash some Communist redoubts. In the first day of the attack the cavalry took many casualties, moved little more than a mile beyond the parallel. Said one officer: "It's been rough...
...movie starts in a Northern prisoner-of-war camp where a Union captain (Cornel Wilde) is recruiting captured Confederate cavalrymen to serve against the Indians on the Western frontier. A Southern colonel (Joseph Cotten) and the remnants of his troop sign up. Arriving at the frontier post of Fort Thorn, they not only find themselves surrounded by Kiowas and Apaches, but are tempted to treason by undercover Confederate agents. They are also badgered by the fort's Rebel-hating commanding officer (Jeff Chandler), who was disabled at Bull Run, lost his brother at Chancellorsville, and has a lively interest...