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...swayed and writhed across France, the same towns came again & again into the news as they changed hands-Arras, Amiens, Cambrai, Soissons. Korea was producing another crop of such towns, won and lost in a matter of weeks or days instead of years. Pohang, Angang, Yong-chon, Hyonpung and Changnyong had changed hands at least three times. And such towns as Taegu, the northwestern "turntable," and Masan, the south coast anchor, were in the news day after day, because they were under almost constant threat...
...25th Division had fought doggedly for an eminence called Sobuk Ridge or "Battle Mountain," winning and losing it several times. Last week Battle Mountain was again soaked with blood; the 25th recaptured it, then lost it again. Farther north, the Communists' first big bulge across the Naktong below Changnyong had been obliterated; last week they had another across almost in the same place. In position before Changnyong, the Marines cleared snipers out of town four times and then found themselves approaching the same dreadful "No Name Ridge" where they had suffered so heavily before (TIME...
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...
Second Threat. There were other danger spots along the front. The week's fiercest battle developed near Changnyong, where the Communists put their whole 4th Division across the Naktong River. Early last week Major General John Church's war-weary 24th Infantry Division had attacked the Red bulge, but in the face of withering enemy artillery fire the 24th recoiled. To bolster them General Walton Walker pulled the U.S. 1st Marine Brigade back from its precarious advanced position near Chinju on the southern front (where their chief objective of breaking up the Reds' south-coast drive toward...
...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. At least 1,500 enemy dead were counted and 800 prisoners were taken. General MacArthur announced that the Changnyong bridgehead was completely liquidated except for a few pockets which were being easily mopped...