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Switching Signals. On the western flank of the U.N. army driving into North Korea, the cavalrymen advanced over the 38th parallel along the highway to Kum-chon, a railway center 80 miles southeast of Pyongyang. They ran smack into what they then decided were the strongest defense positions in North Korea. On heights overlooking bends in the highway the Communists had built concealed concrete pillboxes and log revetments-some with walls eight feet thick...
These two U.S. battalions were committed piecemeal at Osan, to delay the enemy's approach to the Kum River line and Taejon. The Americans, at this stage, had no tanks and their light bazookas and antitank weapons were no match for the Red armor. They fell back. But their gallant action had served, at least, as a temporary roadblock, and it forced the first great tactical mistake of the North Koreans. Apparently overestimating the U.S. strength, the Communists chose to deploy (see map). If they had driven straight on with their main armored force, they would have overrun...
...July. The first damaging inroads on enemy armor were made by Allied airplanes and by 3.5-in. bazookas, capable of penetrating eleven inches of armor, the first of which were dispatched to Korea by emergency air shipment from the U.S. It was clear that if the Kum River line could not be held, the defenders would soon be compressed into a beachhead perimeter around Pusan. U.S. commentators began to bandy the horrid word "Dunkirk." Were the Allies in Korea being pushed into...
...tricky Reds infiltrated U.S. lines at night, or by day disguised as white-clad peasants, and shot up U.S. positions from the flank and rear. The Kum line could not be held. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division and the 25th Infantry Division arrived from Japan to help the battered 24th, and Lieut. General Walton Walker was appointed MacArthur's ground cornmander in Korea. The Americans fell back from Taejon to Kumchon, the next important junction on the rail and road line to Pusan...
...this page in TIME'S issue of July 24. That was the end of the third week of war in Korea. U.S. troops were still falling back. Their defense position was breached; on the south bank of the Kum River they were threatened with envelopment from the flanks. It was obvious that they would have to pull out of the salient around Taejon and continue to fight a long delaying action. How far would they have to retreat before they were strong enough to make a comeback against the North Koreans...