Word: chongchon
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...down this week at Panmunjom "to earnestly discuss utilization of the resources of rivers." For Koreans the tactical use of water has historical as well as practical aspects. In the 7th century, General Ulchi Mundok defeated an invasion of 300,000 Chinese by retreating to the flooding Chongchon River near Pyongyang; the waters helped him virtually to annihilate the Chinese force...
...Chinese hordes poured around the Eighth Army's open right flank, the 24th, 2nd and 25th Divisions fell back to the Chongchon and began crossing at Sinanju where a valuable airfield was lost, Anju and Kunu farther upriver. It was obvious that General Walker would have to keep his whole Eighth Army moving south if it was not to be trapped...
...Yalu, and now there's not a single Commie pilot sitting across that goddam river who doesn't know that, if he sticks his nose across it, he's liable to get it shot off. First we drove them back to Pyongyang, then to the Chongchon. Since spring we've kept them penned between the Chongchon and the Yalu. Now any time we want to go to targets on the Yalu, we can go-and we can go farther if we're ordered...
Hardest hit of all U.S. forces was the Army's 2nd Infantry Division, which bore the brunt of the heavy Chinese attack at the Chongchon River. It lost 4,131 men. Others...
...field and in Tokyo warned that the lull was deceptive. The intelligence estimate was that 18 divisions of Chinese were trying to come to grips with the Eighth Army. Chinese crossed the Taedong estuary in a vast fleet of power junks and small craft; farther back they waded the Chongchon and tinged the icy river with blood when allied airplanes strafed them. But the locustlike swarm of the enemy never stopped...