Word: imjin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sergeant, second Japanese-American (first in Korea) to win the nation's highest award, could only gulp. Then, when the correspondents pressed him for details, he told his story. In April 1951, he and his squad were holding a position near the Imjin River. That night, the Chinese attacked. Miyamura and his men gave ground reluctantly, used up nearly all their ammunition. With only four of his twelve men left, Miyamura collected the remaining ammunition, ordered the others to fall back while he covered their retreat. By the time they had reached safety, Sergeant Miyamura was surrounded...
Shared Battles. Since then, Commonwealth troops have shared most of the U.N. triumphs and setbacks, and the long sitdown that followed. When Britons at home think of the Korean fighting (as they rarely do), they are most likely to remember the heroic stand of the Gloucesters on the Imjin, when one battalion was almost annihilated. On less spectacular occasions, Commonwealth troops have plugged holes in a crumbling U.N. line. When things go badly they are calm, solid, effective...
...barrage of 2,500 rounds, the Reds overran an eastern-front position called Luke the Gook's Castle, were later beaten off. Both attacks served merely as harassments, but they helped to make the winter nights ugly for U.N. troops. Shivering in three-above-zero cold on the Imjin sector, an 18-year-old soldier from The Bronx said: "It's like any other night-just too damned long." Probably no soldiers on earth really prefer fighting at night, but the Chinese and North Koreans have good and obvious reasons for avoiding daylight assaults. The U.N. artillery, close...
Some 40 miles north of Seoul, the swift-flowing Imjin bangs its winter load of ice chunks against steep banks. Tucked into an S-curve of the river is a brown, double-crested ridge, much like the other nondescript brown lumps in the hill chain beyond. Between the two crests is a saddle, about 50 yards wide, not more than 300 yards long. One of the crests is called Little Nori; the other, 40 feet higher, Big Nori...
...Gloucesters had fought some tough battles in Korea. In February they stormed and took a hill near Seoul with such gallantry that it was renamed Gloucestershire Hill. In April at the Imjin River, thousands of Chinese drove through their positions, killing 33, wounding 34, and capturing 407, including the commanding officer, Lieut. Colonel James P. Carne. On board the Empire Fowey, there were only 15 survivors of that battle. By special permission of the King, the Gloucesters wore the blue and gold emblem of the U.S. Distinguished Unit Citation, but few of them had decorations for individual exploits. Explained...