Word: chinju
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Communists kept on rolling. Some times they were stopped, temporarily; more often they advanced. At midweek, tank-led Red columns drove through Chinju and on toward Masan, only 30 miles from the main U.S. supply port of Pusan. West of Masan the grim and battered G.I.s of the U.S. 24th Division threw themselves into the line once more, and the Red advance ground to a halt. Lieut. General Walton H. Walker hastily moved the 25th Infantry Division to the southern front to shore up the 24th. This week the 24th had moved north, was facing another Red assault...
Airborne leathernecks of the Marine Corps' First Air Wing made a dashing debut in Korea last week. Taking off from a Navy carrier, gull-winged Corsair fighter-bombers attacked antiaircraft emplacements, troop concentrations, bridges and transports in the vital Chinju area. In low, ground-hugging runs, the Corsairs flushed Red soldiers out of haystacks and woods...
Hardly were the stand-or-die orders out of General Walker's mouth (see above) than the U.S. forces began to give more ground. Kochang fell, on the central front, and Kumchon, an important strongpoint on the Taejon-Taegu railroad, was threatened from the southeast. At Chinju on the south coast, after a heavy fight in which Communist dead littered the ground "like confetti," the defenders pulled back and two Red regiments rushed in. Chinju, 55 miles from Pusan, was the closest Communist approach to the all-important supply port...
...east, Posong, Sunchon, Yosu, Hadong, Ponggye. Elements of the Americans' tired and battered 24th Infantry Division, which needed a rest, and of the ist Cavalry Division, which could ill be spared from the central front, were wheeled 60 miles south to meet the threat. After the fall of Chinju, the next likely enemy objective was Masan-27 miles from Pusan...