Word: chunchon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Thin to Hold. Last week a U.S. major, Charles Hoge, came limping into Seoul on sore legs and blistered feet. He had been KMAG adviser to the R.O.K. national police in Chunchon, which was stormed by guerrillas last fortnight. Major Hoge's story...
...been in Chunchon for six weeks. Lately we had reports the guerrillas were building up strength. We called a meeting and ordered 60% of the population of 75,000 to leave. I got word to Seoul and was told that the 31st R.O.K. Regiment was coming to join...
...morning there was an attack in company strength on the northeast side of Chunchon. We ordered the rest of the civilians out of the city. Then there was a diversion attack on the south side, perhaps no more than a platoon. Then it was quiet and we thought we could probably hold out until the 31st arrived. But soon the main attack...
...command that coordinated their attacks with Communist front-line activity. G.I.s had started calling the Wonsan-Majon road, 50 miles behind the front, "Ambush Alley," and marine planes were diverted from front-line missions to protect supply convoys. The guerrillas burned the town of Kapyong and seized and terrorized Chunchon. Near Seoul they ambushed a trainload of Turkish troops, killing one, wounding two. Syngman Rhee's Minister of Home Affairs averred that no less than 40,000 guerrillas were operating below the 38th parallel...
...northwest corner of the republic. Another, spearheaded by tanks, drove down the Uijongbu Valley toward the Southern capital of Seoul, which lies on the western side of the peninsula, only about 40 miles south of the 38th parallel. A full Northern division surrounded the central Korean railway terminus of Chunchon, just south of the border...