Word: chinju
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farther south, the town of Chinju, the center of heavy fighting last August, is still a shambles. It is now a town of shanties and tents, and stone gates in front of vanished houses. But trade of a sort is reviving in Chinju. Barbers do a rush business, with customers seated in opulent-looking chairs salvaged from the wreckage. A businessman named Lim Moon Bong has scraped together $1,600 to build the town's finest postwar structure, the "Lighthouse Tearoom," with nautical fixtures...
...still far off. According to U.S. intelligence the North Koreans now had 15 divisions in the line, five more than they reportedly had two weeks ago, indicating that the Reds had committed the bulk of their reserves.This week the enemy was again massing troops in the south between Chinju and Masan, but by all possible human calculations, the U.N. beachhead was assured. It was the best week for the U.N. forces since the war began-and perhaps the war's turning point...
...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 Pusan had been accomplished) and threw them into battle alongside General Church's infantrymen at Changnyong...
Finally, while the marines reached Kosong on the south and dug in on the far side, the 5th and 35th regimental teams joined forces and stopped on high ground four miles east of Chinju. This was revealed as their objective. It was a logical anchor-if it could be held-for the left flank of the Allied beachhead in Korea...
...were slapped by one wing of the Red drive on Chinju," said the Rev. Carroll Chaphe. "The enemy mortars started cracking with the dawn . . . Our casualties were heavier than the medics could handle, but they kept working and I gave them a hand ... A light mortar dropped in ten feet from me, and they're still picking out the metal. When the medics repair this leg I'm going right back to those boys...