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...Hwachon Reservoir area, six miles above the 38th parallel, Colonel Harris' regiment was in a desperate fight for control of floodwaters-a scrap such as U.S. troops had not seen since the early part of 1945, when First Army doughfeet fought through the Hürtgen Forest to seize the Roer River dams in Germany's Rhineland...
This week U.S. doughfeet reached the south edge of the Hwachon Reservoir against the fiercest resistance of the week. The Reds opened some of the reservoir's floodgates, raising by four feet the level of the Pukhan River and sending debris banging against allied pontoons. The enemy seemed dead set on preventing any further approach to the iron triangle...
...Doughfeet Right Behind. In early Korea actions, infantrymen were slow in following up artillery concentrations on enemy positions. Since artillery fire often does little more than stun a well-dug-in enemy, this delay lost them the advantages of artillery preparation. Eighth Army veterans now close in confidently behind the last bursts, calmly watch their own "outgoing" stuff land 100 yards away from them...
...rest of the week the battle below Wonju was a seesaw. Several times Hill 247, a half-mile-long crest two miles south of the town, changed hands. One day, 6,000 screaming North Koreans drove the doughfeet off the hill, set up mortars on it and poured fire on nearby U.S. positions. After artillery and air attacks had silenced the enemy mortars, the Americans retook the hill. They abandoned it again after dark, without a fight...
...over Manchuria last week to the mountains and bleak fields of North Korea. Typical December weather seemed to be coming in a month early. Behind the front, the countryside was dotted at night with bonfires at which U.S. troops warmed themselves. In the fighting lines, the numbed and miserable doughfeet had no such comfort. Medical officers treated their first cases of frostbite and trench foot...