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...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...
...enemy's big push, if it comes in the next week or two, will probably be launched in the flatter terrain of the west. From the central mountains to the U.N.'s western anchor on the Imjin, troops and unit commanders braced themselves every day and every night...
...either side drop its guard. A U.N. task force clanked out beyond the front lines and into Pyonggang at the apex of the "Iron Triangle" on the east-central front, found the battered town deserted, drew back again. A British Commonwealth unit, marooned in Red territory north of the Imjin when that river flooded, competently muffled Communist thrusts for five days until bridges were restored for a withdrawal. North of Hwachon, the Communists ended the week with a battalion-sized attack. U.N. airmen, including Australians in Meteor jets, bored through rain to hit Red positions, supply dumps and North Korean...