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Afraid to Fire. At the Battle of No Name Ridge, according to Sporrer, an Army battalion on the right flank of the 5th Marines flatly refused to deliver supporting fire because it was afraid it would draw return fire from the enemy. On another occasion, he said, four Army tank crews deserted their tanks and fled by foot when another tank was knocked out by two enemy antitank guns...
During the U.S. evacuation of the Hungnam beachhead last year, a key outer defense point was a ridge on the exposed eastern flank. For 30 hours an infantry platoon of the 3rd Division, commanded by ist Lieut. Harry E. Sutton, 30, of The Bronx, beat off enemy attacks, refused to retreat even when part of the U.S. line was overrun. Lieutenant Sutton won the Silver Star for leading a bayonet charge which dug out the enemy and restored the position. Greater honor, perhaps, than the Silver Star was the fact that his fellow soldiers and superior officers referred...
...western flank still stabilized on the south bank of the Han River, Lieut. General Matthew Ridgway kept U.N. troops attacking in the east and in the center. Last Friday U.S. marines drove the Chinese 66th Corps off the hills commanding the central Korean town of Hoengsong. Next day, the marines trudged northward through the narrow mountain passes toward the Red supply base at Hongchon...
...offensive began at 10 a.m. on Wednesday. The IX Corps led the way on the western flank and the X Corps on the eastern flank of a 60-mile front twisting across the mountains between Yangpyong and Pyongchang. Right from the start the going was sticky and slow. Enemy resistance was light at first, but rain fell heavily, turning frozen paddy fields into treacherous brown slime. Drenched men and vehicles slithered through deep...
...week's end the advance had bagged Pyongchang and Pangnim, some 20 miles from the jumping-off place. The enemy was losing up to 2,100 casualties a day. His resistance had changed from light to "moderate" to "stiff." On the west flank, where the Han River bends south from the Seoul flatlands, he held stubbornly...