Word: chunchon
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...ruined Chunchon a couple of weeks age. I was poking around some destroyed buildings getting material for a color piece on what war does to a prosperous city, etc. Came upon an American library, set up during the occupation of South Korea by some U.S. Information Service. Library was full of books on education, agriculture, mechanics, etc., generally practical stuff to help modernize and so forth. The building had been bombed and the books were lying around two rooms, about knee deep on the floor, pages torn, broken glass between them, muddied pages where GI's had stepped through...
...screening forces." North of Seoul, when the Communists retreated behind the Imjin, R.O.K. units gained several miles, and at week's end stood on high ground overlooking the river. U.N. patrols entered Munsan, after routing some 6,000 Reds who had held up the advance for a week. Chunchon (given up by the enemy last fortnight) and Uijongbu remained in no man's land, although dominated most of the time by allied reconnaissance forces...
...week wore on, enemy resistance stiffened. Some Communist artillery was spotted 20 miles north of Seoul. Communist and allied guns dueled across the lower reaches of the Han. In Chunchon, a U.S. patrol was fired on, for the first time in six days. U.S. infantrymen ran up against stubborn Reds dug into hillside positions north of Chunchon, failed to blast them out in a bitter five-hour fight...
...Chunchon (see map). They tried to hide their movements under smoke screens created by smudge pots and burning brush. Allied planes dived through the smoke, raking troop concentrations, vehicle columns, pack trains, motorcycles and oxcarts. General Van Fleet and his army braced for the attack-with barbed wire, minefields and artillery massed "wheel to wheel." Any night the Chinese might blow their bugles and whistles, set off their green flares, and attack...
...central front, where the Chinese had momentarily stalled, the marines broke contact and pulled out of Chunchon to the south. Before quitting the town, they left a grisly token for the Chinese. On the pillars at the north end of a bridge, they placed two Chinese skulls wearing bullet-punctured Russian helmets...