Word: kapsan
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...some fronts the no man's land between the armies was growing wider in spite of the slow, tentative advance by U.N. forces. Beyond Kapsan the U.S. troops pushed through Red lines to the Yalu River, effectively dividing enemy forces. A baffled Pentagon spokesman, asked by newsmen to explain Chinese strategy in Korea, described it as a "holding operation...
Advance elements of the U.S. 7th Division could see the cold, hazy-blue mountains of Manchuria. This week, after capturing the crossroads town of Kapsan, the 7th pushed a tank-led spearhead all the way to the border. The G.I.s reached the south bank of the Yalu near Hyesanjin, a major Communist crossing point on the river's wide southerly bend...
...Kapsan, defended by North Koreans, was not given up without a fight. The Reds were dug in and well concealed on a slope overlooking a blown bridge. They expected to shoot up the approaching U.S. force when it stopped to ponder ways & means of getting across the stream. But the U.S. column was armor-tipped, and the tanks apparently panicked two of the waiting North Koreans; they broke from their foxholes and ran. That gave the Red play away. The U.S. tanks splashed across the stream while doughfeet swarmed across the bridge's torn girders. The Reds who stayed...
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