Word: chechon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Friday the Chinese attack was spent and broken. Switching objectives eastward, the enemy sent two North Korean corps against the minor communications center of Chechon. Here, too, U.S. counterattacks, backed by artillery and air concentrations, held the Red advance to a walk...
...week's end, the Communists had taken casualties estimated at 33,000. South of Seoul, Puerto Rican G.I.s literally annihilated a Communist regiment; after a round-the-clock shelling north of Ichon, U.S. artillerymen reported 1,100 Chinese Reds dead in their foxholes. At Wonju and Chechon the hills were littered with enemy dead and abandoned weapons. U.N. planes dropped leaflets over the Communist lines; on them was printed a terse "Count your...
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