Word: imjin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...massive drive across the Imjin River, near Uijongbu, the Chinese managed to isolate the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment.* For three days, their comrades tried in vain to relieve the Gloucesters. With most of their ammunition gone, the Gloucesters' commanding officer ordered his men to break out any way they could. Maurice ("Mike") Harvey, a slim, spectacled young captain, was one of the few who made...
...Reds attacked in the area of the Hwachon Reservoir dam (taken by U.S. troops without a fight last week before the Red drive began) and at other points farther west. On a 15-mile front, they pushed across the Imjin River, wading the waist-high water. In the extreme west, U.N. forces pulled back twelve miles to help hold the Imjin bridgehead in check. In the first twelve hours the Communist attack spread across 50 miles of front, in 24 hours across 100 miles...
Having forced their way across the frozen Imjin River, the Chinese ran into minefields and barbed wire. The leading elements marched right through the minefields, most of them blowing themselves up, and those who followed advanced over their own dead. When they reached the barbed wire, hundreds of Chinese flung straw mats down on the wire, then threw themselves down on the mats, and the others trod the living bridge over the wire...
...week's end the crack U.S. 1st Cavalry Division had crossed the Imjin River, driven back remnants of the enemy's 9th and 18th Divisions, seized Kaesong, last South Korean city held by the Reds. This week the 1st Cavalry pushed across the parallel in force. They were on the main railway and road to Pyongyang...