Word: chunchon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the fleeing South Koreans tossed their weapons away, on the road back to Chunchon. Others drove calves and oxen before them. Army and Marine truck drivers were trying to get their six-by-sixes up the road with rations and ammunition for the front. The grunts and lowing of the cattle mingled with shouts, curses, and the clash of transmission gears. Desperate marines tried to turn the fleeing ROKs around-but failed...
...four days the marines fought off Red attacks from three sides. Then a British brigade and a regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division arrived, and helped them seal off the penetration. The Chinese managed to cut the Seoul-Chunchon highway, but after that they "ran out of steam." They had vast reinforcements moving up, but apparently they needed to leapfrog them through the units that had already been mauled, and that took time...
...back again before a Red ambush could be sprung. The second column, thrusting north of the Chongpyong Reservoir, ran into an enemy ambush of grenade and machine-gun fire, but managed to fight its way out to U.N. lines below the parallel. Along the central front above Chunchon, the enemy counterattacked; the main blow in his anticipated offensive seemed likely to come in this sensitive sector...
...offensive took abandoned Chunchon, last important crossroads town on the central front below the 38th parallel. Next day, on the front above Seoul, Uijongbu fell, also without a fight. The enemy seemed to have only one considerable force left in South Korea-perhaps 60,000 strong-guarding the two highways on the west side of the peninsula leading to Pyongyang...
...rearguards put up more of a fight. When they did pull back, they left behind mines, booby traps, even dummies to man their abandoned positions. Hongchon, Pungam and some other towns fell to Ridgway's careful, crunching advance, which was approaching the important Red base at Chunchon (see map), which the Reds this week were reported to be abandoning. Of the captured towns, the most important was Hongchon, once thought to be the headquarters of the Chinese 39th and 40th armies and probable origin of the Red assaults on Hoengsong last month. TIME Correspondent Tom Lambert cabled this account...