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MacArthur has been fighting the left flank of the Red Chinese army. The center of that army has been shifting north, and may soon be flung against the U.N. forces in Korea. The right flank of the Chinese Reds is still pinned down in South China, fighting guerrillas and guarding against an invasion from Formosa...
...Turkey's aid. The war gets difficult and General Legion, the American commander of the U.N. forces in Turkey, proposes to blockade Piraeus, the port of Athens, and to help General Apericles establish a beachhead on the mainland and hit the flank of the Greek Reds...
...Eighth Army moved warily northward. Two U.S. armored columns raided across the parallel on the western flank of the peninsula. One rolled up the main road north of Uijongbu toward Kumhwa; air spotters, directing artillery, helped it get back again before a Red ambush could be sprung. The second column, thrusting north of the Chongpyong Reservoir, ran into an enemy ambush of grenade and machine-gun fire, but managed to fight its way out to U.N. lines below the parallel. Along the central front above Chunchon, the enemy counterattacked; the main blow in his anticipated offensive seemed likely to come...
...eastern flank of the peninsula, U.N. naval forces bore the brunt of probing the enemy, sapping his buildup, keeping him as much off balance as possible. The port of Wonsan, 80 miles above the parallel and a key traffic hub, was under continuous fire; by week's end it had endured 43 consecutive days of bombardment, a naval record exceeding that achieved in the siege of Vicksburg.* Rear Admiral Allan E. Smith, in command of the naval task force off Wonsan, described the operation: "In Wonsan, you cannot walk on the streets. You cannot sleep any time...
...fight for "Tombstone Hill," rising 1,200 feet from a valley on the central front, was typical. A North Korean rearguard clung to its one-man pillboxes studding Tombstone's flank. The fortifications were foxholes, each roofed over by a three-foot layer of logs, stones and earth. Each man inside had plenty of ammo and a two days' bag of rice. U.S. Marine Corsairs blasted Tombstone with rockets, seared it with napalm. Shell bursts enveloped it. G.I.s crawled up, peppering the enemy's pillboxes with small-arms fire. Those who survived held off the U.N. attack...