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Whether the U.S. would stay there depended largely on how effectively its troops could deal with the new threat on their left flank, and how quickly U.S. strength around Pusan was being built...
...obvious intent of the U.S. plan was to keep the right flank more or less stationary, and swing the rest of the line gradually south and east until the U.S. left flank came to rest safely on the southern coast near Pusan. The operation was endangered last week by a Red drive down Korea's western coast which captured Kwangju and pushed on towards Sunchon. This indicated that the Reds' main drive may not follow the U.S. retreat along the railroad into the very rough, defensible country southeast of Taejon...
...commander in Taejon, had sent a message to the commander of his reserve, calling for help to hold the southern rail and highway escape routes open. The reserve commander never got the message; it showed up, hours later, at another headquarters far to the rear. By midafternoon the Communist flank attacks had cut the escape routes...
West of Taejon, the Reds kept right on rolling. This week they launched a heavy attack on the unprotected far left flank of the U.S.-South Korean line, rolled unopposed down the west coast almost to the tip of the Korean peninsula. The Reds who took Taejon did not stay there long. They drove 20 miles to the southeast...
...bitter weeks of the Korean retreat, the officers and men of Paik's outfit learned much. They learned about patrols, flank security and taking cover. American advisers had tried to drill these things into them for months but, until forced to apply them in combat, many Koreans had not taken them very seriously. Paik always did. He drove his men, one officer said, "harder than the enemy...