Word: chipyong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of the 23rd Regimental Combat Team at Chipyong last month, the French battalion in Korea fought a bloody, victorious battle against three Red Chinese divisions (TIME, Feb. 26). Thirteen hundred enemy dead were counted in front of the U.N. lines, the majority in front of the French positions. Said the 23rd's commander, Lieut. Colonel John H. Chiles: "The French are some of the fightingest men I have ever seen. When they attack a position, they carry it. When they hold a position, they hold it. When you put them some place, you don't have...
This time the play did not click. U.N. troops gave up unimportant sectors, but held where they had to, as at Chipyong. Then General Ridgway shifted his strength eastward from Seoul. The U.N. line snapped back. Armored counterattacks relieved Chipyong, smashed north from Wonju. North of Ichon, U.N. troops bashed in the west flank of the Red drive...
...Kunu last December, Colonel Paul Freeman, 43, silver-haired commander of the 23rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, covered the Eighth Army's retreat. At Wonju in January, the 23rd hung on. At Chipyong last week, Freeman and his men held down the hot corner again. With them was a tough French battalion commanded by Lieut. Colonel Ralph Monclar, a Foreign Legion veteran who had given up his general's rank to take his men to Korea...
Attacking Chinese Reds swarmed down the mountain valleys on both sides of Chipyong, the tip of a precarious but vital U.N. salient. Freeman set up a circular defense perimeter on a low ring of hills, said to his men: "There is no place to go. We are cut off and surrounded. This is a key point of the Eighth Army effort, so we will stay here and kill Chinese...
...Army troop commanders would have sympathized. Since the Korean war began, the U.N. forces' close and plentiful artillery support has helped as much as airpower to neutralize the vast manpower superiority of the Communists. Last week, day & night artillery barrages kept the Communists from overwhelming the defenders of Chipyong and Wonju...
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