Word: chongju
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attack sector extended some 70 miles across Korea's waist eastward from a point on the Yellow Sea below Chongju. The U.S. 2nd, 24th and 25th Divisions jumped off, alongside the R.O.K. 1st, 6th, 7th and 8th and the British 27th Brigade. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division was held in reserve. The offensive involved about 100,000 Allied troops against about 125,000 of the enemy, mostly Chinese...
...first day the 24th reached a high river dike south of Chongju, and the next day went on to take the ruined town without a fight. Other divisions gained several miles. The South Koreans pushed eleven miles north of Tokchon...
...transportation and supply center, and threatened both the rear and right flank of the U.S. 24th Infantry Division. The 24th, which had pushed one spearhead to within 14 miles of the mouth of the Yalu River, promptly pulled back nearly 50 miles to the west coast town of Chongju...
Little by little the picture was enlarged. At Wonju 1,000 to 2,000 had been killed, including five U.S. officers, at Suchon 280, at Mokpo 500, at Yangpyong 700, at Chongju 2,400, at Yosu...
...Tuesday morning Baker received an order to head northward from Poun and keep going until he linked up with the U.S. 7th Division. At 11:30 a.m., his company took off-three Sherman tanks, preceded by three intelligence and reconnaissance jeeps. At Chongju, a group of weeping women told Baker's dust-stained men that the Reds in the town were holding their husbands and families as hostages and that all would be killed if the tanks continued their advance. Said Baker later: "Our orders were to go through, so we went through...