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Chinese-North Korean armies have cut off the read between Hamhung and Woman on the east coast, and have increased their pressure on trapped elements of the U. S. First Marine Division, cut off at the southern tip of the Changlin reservoir. At Kote, just north of Hamhung, Marines of the First Regiment were surrounded and greatly outnumbered by heavy enemy concentrations...
This week, in a report to the U.N., MacArthur was more specific. He listed six instances of anti-aircraft fire from the Manchurian side of the Yalu River on U.N. planes; the intervention of Chinese Communist combat units, totaling 7,500 troops, north of Hamhung and south of the Suiho Dam; and the information from captured Chinese Red Army men of other units in action. The Supreme Commander's clipped conclusion: "[These] are mat ters which it is incumbent upon me to bring at once to the attention of the United Nations...
...rail center 75 miles southeast of the Manchurian border, but were stalled a few miles farther north by 2,000 Reds. In the Pujon-Changjin area 10,000 Reds started a drive southeast along the flank of the R.O.K. 3rd Division, headed toward the east coast city of Hamhung, 60 miles north of Wonsan. The Communists were only 30 miles northwest of Hamhung, and threatened to knife in between U.N. forces advancing north of Hamhung and the U.N. base at Wonsan...
...Wonsan, U.S. Marines were moving south to reinforce the battered spearhead near Kojo, and a battalion of R.O.K. Marines had landed below Kojo to form the southern arm of a pincers closing in on the "Diamond Mountain Gang." Other U.S. Marines were pushing north from Wonsan toward Hamhung. At Hamhung the Marines might face a bitter fight to keep open supply lines to the R.O.K. I Corps (the 3rd and Capitol Divisions) and to the U.S. 7th Infantry Division, which had completed an unopposed landing at Iwon, 80 miles up the east coast from Hamhung. Originally scheduled to come ashore...
...east coast the R.O.K. Capital and 3rd Divisions had moved north from the Hamhung-Hungnam industrial area, were forcing disorganized Red units into Korea's highest mountains, 65 miles south of the Yalu River. Traveling light, the R.O.K. troops often marched as much as 30 miles a day, sometimes outran their communications...