Word: chunchon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winter of 1948, he was assigned to Korea. Caldwell and his Korean-speaking wife, a missionary's daughter, were stationed at Chunchon just below the 38th parallel. They set up a library, prepared films, staged puppet shows with messages that got across to illiterate Koreans. Caldwell is sure the 1948 election was "an enormous success," was shocked to find that in the U.S. it was widely criticized as undemocratic...
Strips of paper draped across a patch of ground near the South Korean town of Chunchon last week spelled out the words, "P.O.W.s-19-rescue." An Air Force observer spotted the sign and radioed an armored U.S. task unit. A short while later, three tanks rolled up to Chunchon to rescue 18 marines and a G.I. who were captured last December in fighting at Changjin Reservoir. The 19 had spent the last six months being herded from prison camp to prison camp. Except for the endless days and hours of forced marching back & forth over Korea's mountains, none...
Their captors had brought them to Chunchon only three days before. The Chinese fled when a U.S. tank patrol passed through the town. They left their prisoners a bundle of leaflets to be spread among the U.S. troops. "Those people actually believe that we're being oppressed by what they call capitalists and warmongers," said Pfc. Paul Phillips. Said Staff Sergeant Charlie Harrison, who had spent 3½ years of World War II in a Japanese prison camp, "I think I know better than most how sweet free air tastes. I'm not yelling uncle, but two times...
...armored rescue forces broke up an enemy roadblock in the 2nd's rear, and helped the division re-form a solid line below Chunchon. On the fourth day, enemy pressure slackened while the Chinese removed their thousands of dead and wounded from the battlefield. At week's end, they attacked again with 30,000 men. The onslaught was broken...
...Like a Walk. West of Chunchon, the Chinese aimed a force of 25,000 men down the Pukhan River valley toward the confluence of the Pukhan and the Han. If successful, this assault would have been a serious flanking threat to Seoul. It was beaten off. South Koreans, fighting well on this front, killed 684 (counted) Reds with bayonets and knives...