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...rate the Eighth Army and the X Corps were approaching each other, a junction seemed almost certain this week. After that, the trend of battle would depend on: 1) how many North Koreans would be caught in the southwestern corner; 2) whether these troops would be able to fight or filter north through the Allied line (the U.S. spearheads driving up from the southeast naturally had no solid line behind them); 3) whether the Communists would be able and willing to fight in the northeastern corner of South Korea, with whatever troops could be regrouped in that area. If they...
...heavy North Korean forces to save the remnants of a unit whose steadfast refusal to yield a razorback ridge near Soehon played a major part in stalling the Reds' southern drive. The ridge was a key position controlling the broad valley of the Nam River down to its junction with the Naktong...
...Michaelis' 27th combat team tangled with a capable and battle-tested foe, a 45-year-old North Korean lieutenant general named Kim Mu Chong, onetime commanding general of the Chinese Communists' famed Eighth Route Army. Kim's men met "Mike" Michaelis' men at a road junction 15 miles northwest of Taegu. General Kim looked the situation over and decided to hit young Colonel Michaelis smack in the nose...
Armored Slam. For four nights running, Kim slammed his armor at Michaelis' forward elements astride the road just south of the junction. The Red tanks would drive down the road to within 100 yards of the first U.S. foxhole and open flat trajectory fire with their 85-mm. guns; a good many of the shells went screaming down the road, hit the first small elevation in their path and bounced into a nearby hillside, like bowling balls. Michaelis' men, who did not budge under the assault, nicknamed the road, "the bowling alley...
...complaint was based chiefly on the story of a 21-year-old passenger who survived the wreck, escaped and talked with a member of the Ramirez family before he died in a hospital. The youth declared that Ramirez' truck had been stopped by Dominican soldiers at a road junction south of Ciudad Trujillo, on the night of June 1. When Ramirez jumped out, he was attacked with clubs, the witness said, but grabbed one away from a soldier and knocked down three men before he was riddled with bullets. Then soldiers took the seven passengers to El Numero. There...