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...first day's assault on Triangle went badly, and the 7th's doughfeet were pinned on the steep, sandy slopes. Eventually they drove the Chinese off the top and dug in behind barbed wire and sandbags, hauled up on a hastily built cable railway. Thus protected, their machine-gunners mowed down wave after wave of counterattacking Chinese. Their mortar-men put smoke shells on Papa-san to blind the enemy spotters there, and U.N. planes blasted the Chinese assembly points. This week the Reds drove the Americans and ROKs back in a desperate night counterattack; but when...
They stormed Little Gibraltar in a surprise attack and drove the Americans off-temporarily. In the bitter 41-hour fight which ensued, both sides kept throwing in reinforcements until the Chinese had a whole division engaged. The U.S. doughfeet clawed back up the slopes and regained possession. When the fight for Little Gibraltar was all over, some 1,500 Reds were frozen stiff on the wire or sprawled in the snow. U.S. casualties were probably not light...
...commanders were jubilant over the Kumsong victory, but the slogging doughfeet of the 24th were not so cheerful. Cold rains lashed by freezing winds were giving them a foretaste of the Korean winter, which only a few old hands could remember from last year. Hundreds of G.I. bonfires dotted the countryside. Said a sergeant: "My feet are cold, my hands are cold and my neck is cold. And this is only October. I just hope I get out of here before winter...
Other highlights of last week's action: ¶ Wielding flamethrowers and white-phosphorous grenades, gallant doughfeet of the U.S. 2nd Division and attached French overran the last, northernmost peak of Heartbreak Ridge, where a few diehard North Koreans were holding out from a fortified bowl-shaped depression on top. The attackers were aided by tank columns which ranged up the valleys on both sides of the ridge, blasting the Communist positions on top and on the slopes. The peak was so precariously held by the allies that they were dislodged-for twelve hours-by a Red counterattack in less...
Bloody Ridge. The 2nd Infantry had a hard fight for "Bloody Ridge," a triple-peaked 3,000-ft. hogback north of Yanggu. By last week the Red positions had been shattered by a tremendous torrent of artillery-390,000 rounds. When the doughfeet got on top, they found nothing alive but a few wounded and half-starved North Koreans, abandoned by their comrades. By U.N. count, the Reds had lost 10,500 men, including 930 prisoners...