Word: chongju
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...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...
...against negligible Red opposition- a few propeller-driven Yak 3s, 7s, 9s and 15s, some Ilyushin 10s. This week, the Air Force heard what might prove to be serious news. A number of new-type Russian-made jet fighters, said a MacArthur communique, had been sighted in action over Chongju. The Reds' new plane was described as "smaller than the American F-80, with swept-back wings, a stubby fuselage and blunt nose...