Word: korangpo
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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While peace talks were but a sporadic, long-distance mumble, the guns spoke sharply again. Allied artillery began pounding the enemy lines along a 40-mile front west of Kumhwa, through Chorwon, Yonchon, Korangpo, to within a few miles of Kaesong. At the same time, allied naval units bombarded east and west coasts of North Korea, and carrier-based aircraft and bombers from bases in Japan and Okinawa began tearing up enemy supply lines. Next day allied troops attacked all along the line. By nightfall 100,000 men of nine allied nations were in combat...
...Didn't Know. Other Chinese attacks sputtered from Kumsong, the main Red buildup base on the central front, almost to the Yellow Sea. At the top of the "Iron Triangle," onetime Red bastion, the Eighth Army's line was bent back. At Korangpo in the extreme west, the Reds punched forward, despite heavy U.N. artillery. By week's end, the Eighth Army recaptured all the lost ground and pushed...
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