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...Buzz Saw. Whether Chinese or Korean, the enemy had succeeded in breaking up a triumphant U.N. offensive, by midweek was harrying U.N. defenses. In the northwest powerful Red units had driven southwest from the Manchurian border to Unsan, 70 miles north of Pyongyang. Four overextended R.O.K. divisions -the ist, 6th, 7th and 8th-crumpled or were chopped up piecemeal in the Red attack. The enemy seemed to be trying to break the U.N. line below Unsan, then drive west along the Chongchon River to the coast...
...prevent this, U.N. commanders sent the U.S. ist Cavalry Division racing toward Unsan to bolster the sagging R.O.K. units. At Unsan the cavalrymen ran into a Red buzz saw (see below). One field hospital south of Unsan treated more than 500 U.S. casualties in a single day. But, though badly cut up, the ist Cavalry Division averted a Communist breakthrough -at least for the time being...
...with the U.S. ist Cavalry Division were in the outfit when it sadly traded its horses for trucks and tanks eight years ago. But today's troopers, though most of them have never straddled a horse, still cherish traditions of the days of boots & saddles and of dashing General George Custer,* who once commanded the division's famed 7th Cavalry Regiment...
...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...