Word: chorwon
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...Eighth Army moved back fast enough to keep out of serious trouble, slowly enough to inflict vast damage on the Chinese. The Eighth was trading space for enemy blood - all that the U.N. forces could do in Korea. In a valley south of Chorwon, where hundreds of Reds were ambushed, other Reds slipped and staggered in puddles of blood while trying to remove their dead...
...week's end troops of seven nations-U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, Siam, Greece, South Korea-were in North Korea almost everywhere along the 110-mile front. Enemy resistance faded in the west but stiffened in the center, in front of the Communists' "iron triangle" (Hwachon-Chorwon-Yonchon), where the main body of their forces was believed to be poised for the big push. At one point, Chinese holed up in eight enormous bunkers drove off repeated U.S. attacks with mortars, machine guns, rifle fire and grenades...