Word: imjin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convoy will cross the Imjin River on the Seoul-Kaesong road at about 2300 hours G.M.T. 4 July (6 p.m. E.S.T. July 4) or at the same hour on the day agreed upon to this meeting...
...extreme western flank, the Eighth Army was still hanging back below the 38th parallel: General Van Fleet seemed unwilling to give up his useful water anchor on the Imjin (which flows into the Han estuary); a forward move in that area would widen his front painfully...
...east-central front, they cut off an estimated 60,000 Chinese from escape by road. Most of them would probably filter out along tortuous mountain trails, but could take almost no equipment with them. The enemy had already abandoned huge caches of arms and other supplies. On the Imjin River, a U.N. unit came across a Chinese dump containing 200 machine guns and several hundred tons of ammunition, some of it previously captured from U.S. forces...
...Warrior of Liberation." Tsung's army crossed the Imjin last month. On May 15 it headed for the Han, to wipe out the U.N. bridgehead. The Manchurian farmer's battalion had twelve field pieces, and his platoon operated two of the 76-mm. pieces, with 60 rounds for each gun. Supplies of shells got up to the front pretty regularly...
Aggressive U.N. patrols and tank-infantry teams fought last week against what the communiques described as "scattered delaying groups" and "hostile screening forces." North of Seoul, when the Communists retreated behind the Imjin, R.O.K. units gained several miles, and at week's end stood on high ground overlooking the river. U.N. patrols entered Munsan, after routing some 6,000 Reds who had held up the advance for a week. Chunchon (given up by the enemy last fortnight) and Uijongbu remained in no man's land, although dominated most of the time by allied reconnaissance forces...