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...fallen, Seoul was in U.N. hands. The North Koreans pulled out northward toward Uijongbu, a road and rail center 18 miles below the 38th parallel. Marine planes flattened the town with Tiny Tim rockets (1,284 Ibs. weight, 11.75 inches in diameter). One X Corps column raced eastward from Seoul to the Ichon area, where it linked up with South Korean troops sweeping the east coast...
...would be able and willing to fight in the northeastern corner of South Korea, with whatever troops could be regrouped in that area. If they did fight there, MacArthur could choose between a wheeling operation anchored on Seoul to press them back, or cut behind them in an attack eastward from the Seoul enclave, along the 38th parallel, toward the Japan Sea. If he chose the latter, and if it succeeded, the rest of the fighting for South Korea-barring, as always, outside interference-would...
Last week, back once more in his old Navy uniform, Hedge Underwood crossed the river Han with a detachment of U.S. Marines. Facing eastward, he could look once again at a flat-topped ridge behind which lay his old home and his family's college. His job with the Marines was the interrogation of Communist prisoners. From them Hedge soon learned that a large unit of North Korean troops was using the college as headquarters. The Marine commander gave the obvious and necessary orders. As Hedge watched, a rain of shells poured down on Chosen Christian University, which three...
Like Gerhart Eisler, fugitive from U.S. justice and chief of propaganda for the Reds in East Germany, many a top German Communist spent the years of Hitler's ascendancy hidden away in hospitable Western countries. A few fled eastward to the purer atmosphere of Moscow. One of these was the recently appointed East Germany Party Boss Walter Ulbricht...
...pursue any other course would be to turn over the fruits of our Pacific victory to a potential enemy. It would shift any future battle area 5,000 miles eastward to the coasts of the American continents, our own home coast; it would completely expose our friends in the Philippines, our friends in Australia and New Zealand, our friends in Indonesia, our friends in Japan and other areas, to the lustful thrusts of those who stand for slavery as against liberty, for atheism as against...