Word: chonan
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...miles more to Ipchong, and there the column ran almost smack into two troop-laden Red trucks. The enemy fled, and Baker used the gas from their vehicles to refuel his own. At Chonan, another eight miles, enemy soldiers began to appear on both sides of the road. Baker's column kept rolling, fired ahead and to its flanks as it rolled. One of Baker's gunners kept score on its hits in a little notebook: "9:05 p.m.-two more; two more; seven more; 9:35 p.m.-30 Reds, two carts; two more; two mule carts full...
...week began, deceptively enough, with the first solid U.S. counterattack of the war, launched with the first Sherman tanks committed to battle. In the sector south of fallen Chonan, the Reds, who had not expected U.S. tanks in action against them, were caught off balance. Lieut. Joe Griffith of Charleston, S.C. said: "The Commies took off like a bunch of scared rabbits when the tanks opened up." One Sherman ambushed an enemy T-34, crippled it at a toothsome range of only ten yards, and triumphantly towed it to headquarters for scrutiny. The Americans, who had fallen back ten miles...
Smack into Ambush. After the first evacuation of Chonan, U.S. commanders discovered that the Communists had failed to follow and that some 15 miles of unoccupied road lay behind. Angry and ruffled, they turned one platoon around and sent it north. The platoon-led by jeeps instead of tanks-ran smack into an enemy ambush...
...picture was not totally dark. The U.S. forces had seized unqualified command of the air, would hold it unless Russia directly intervened. The South Korean forces, chewed up and demoralized by the enemy's first onslaught, were regrouping behind the U.S. screen. East of the Osan-Chonan sector, where they had only Red infantry to fight against, the South Koreans were beginning to achieve some success. The arrival at week's end of U.S. medium tanks and heavy artillery was an enormous boost for U.S. morale...
...ridge south of Chonan, a bearded U.S. sergeant in a foxhole heard the ineffective crump of mortars behind him change to the sharper slam of 155-mm. Long Toms. "Boy," he said happily, "my morale...