Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phase One began when the North Korean army crossed the 38th parallel and bowled down the center of the peninsula through Seoul toward Taejon. A handful of green troops of the U.S. Eighth Army were rushed into Korea from Japan, tried to bolster crumbling South Korean resistance and to stem the Red onslaught. At Taejon came the first big decision: General MacArthur decided to force the enemy to deploy and he succeeded. In some of the heaviest battles of the whole campaign, at the famed "Bowling Alley" outside Taegu, the Reds were stopped cold. With that victory, the U.N. forces...
...overextended U.N. forces (mostly marines of the ist Division) in the northeast corner. At Changjin, crack Chinese divisions encircled the leathernecks. In one of the many truly epic battles, the marines made it, broke through to the sea, carrying along most of their wounded. Meanwhile, the Eighth Army, badly shaken by what everyone called the "Chinese hordes," retired all the way back past the 38th parallel, past Seoul. Finally, along a line running across the peninsula from a little below Samchok and Wonju, the Eighth stood its ground. At this point it became clear that the Eighth Army would...
...pattern of war in Korea last week: small-scale skirmishing, punctuated by a few violent flurries where larger units met. Screening their buildup for a new offensive, the Chinese and North Koreans slowed down the cautiously probing Eighth Army to a snail's pace or stopped it altogether...
...While a flurry of cease-fire talk came from the U.N, and Chinese resistance stiffened in Korea, the Eighth Army commander announced that...
...Moving up to take MacArthur's post, Lieut. General Matthew B. Ridgway was replaced as Eighth Army commander "by Lieut. General...