Word: ist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mortars. One North Korean force cut the main supply road to Chosan, isolated the R.O.K. 7th Regiment on the Yalu. Three more Red battalions surrounded part of the 6th Division near Onjong, 50 miles south of Chosan. At Unsan, 70 miles north of Pyongyang, a regiment of the R.O.K. ist Division was enveloped by 7,000 Communists. Thirty miles west of Unsan, U.N. air strikes failed to break stubborn North Korean resistance which stalled the drive of the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade toward Sinuiju on the Manchurian border...
...Border Was the Target. U.N. forces struggled to recover their balance, and partially succeeded. In the northwest the trapped R.O.K. regiments fought their way into the clear, though with some losses to men and equipment. The R.O.K. ist Division was holding Unsan against punishing enemy attacks, and the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade was again making progress toward Sinuiju...
...strikes softened Inchon's beaches and all land approaches to the port. As Admiral James H. Doyle's task force approached, six destroyers gamely plowed ahead, drew and silenced the fire of hidden enemy batteries on Wolmi island. Several ships were damaged, one severely. Then the U.S. ist Marine Division hit the beaches...
Under Major General Oliver P. Smith (see below), the ist Marines had been assembled from stations as distant as the Mediterranean and as near as the Pusan front...
...thing for Smith to be late getting into the war, or not to get into it at all. He had to wait in California while his assistant division commander, Brigadier General Edward Craig (TIME, Aug. 14), took advance elements of the ist to Korea for the first Marine battles there. In World War I, Smith, as a fledgling Marine officer, had been sent to Guam-of all places-where the only German he might have sighted (he did not) would have been Count Luckner, the Kaiser's famed sea raider. Pearl Harbor found Smith in-of all places-Iceland...