Word: kumhwa
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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...
...were stashed underground, indicating that the Reds had planned a winter-long stopover. In addition to jerking the enemy out of his prepared winter positions, the offensive had helped strengthen the allied winter line by pushing the enemy back out of reach of the railroad which runs down from Kumhwa through Chorwon and Yonchon to Seoul. What had seemed at first to be an all-out offensive had turned out to be a limited tactical offensive. "Splendid," said tough-talking General Van Fleet. "We have broken up their potential so they cannot surprise...
Then the Eighth Army announced that the Reds were "exploiting" a breakthrough south of Kumhwa on the central front. A Chinese division, supported by cavalry, achieved this penetration in the face of intense artillery fire...
...manage that, however, the Eighth Army would have to prevent major Red breakthroughs. It had to stop the enemy or else move south in front of him. The Red breakthrough at Kumhwa, after only three days of fighting, indicated that Van Fleet might be forced to use his reserve for defense rather than for later attack...
...Eighth Army moved warily northward. Two U.S. armored columns raided across the parallel on the western flank of the peninsula. One rolled up the main road north of Uijongbu toward Kumhwa; air spotters, directing artillery, helped it get back again before a Red ambush could be sprung. The second column, thrusting north of the Chongpyong Reservoir, ran into an enemy ambush of grenade and machine-gun fire, but managed to fight its way out to U.N. lines below the parallel. Along the central front above Chunchon, the enemy counterattacked; the main blow in his anticipated offensive seemed likely to come...