Word: changjin
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...lull in the ground action went on for four days, except for sputtering local fights. After chewing up seven of the nine Chinese regiments which had surrounded them, the marines were in sight of Changjin reservoir. The final crust of enemy resistance in that area was broken by fierce Allied air attacks with rockets and jellied gasoline. Within a few miles of the reservoir, the marines sat down. All four of the Changjin power plants were in their hands...
...from Manchuria. But with or without Chinese aid, the North Koreans were still capable of making trouble. The R.O.K. Capitol Division, moving up Korea's northeast coast, ran into aggressive enemy resistance backed by artillery. The R.O.K. 3rd Division, driving in from the coast toward the Pujon and Changjin Reservoirs, two major sources of North Korea's hydroelectric power, reported that a strong Red Force was assembling near Changjin, 40 miles south of the Manchurian border...
...east coast the R.O.K. Capitol Division drove into Songjin, a seaport and rail center 75 miles southeast of the Manchurian border, but were stalled a few miles farther north by 2,000 Reds. In the Pujon-Changjin area 10,000 Reds started a drive southeast along the flank of the R.O.K. 3rd Division, headed toward the east coast city of Hamhung, 60 miles north of Wonsan. The Communists were only 30 miles northwest of Hamhung, and threatened to knife in between U.N. forces advancing north of Hamhung and the U.N. base at Wonsan...
...Wonsan, headquarters of Major General Edward Almond, a U.S. X Corps spokesman said that one Chinese Communist regiment was in action near Changjin...