Word: kwangju
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leader Shinicky reported that because of police intimidation, he has not yet worked up sufficient nerve even to visit Kwangju-the little town 15 miles east of Seoul where he is standing for reelection...
...Lieut. Colonel Gines Perez of San Antonio, Texas, fought the war out here from 1942 to 1945. A mild-looking man with glasses who, like so many other such commanders, doesn't look like a military man, Colonel Perez had his battalion strung out on the road from Kwangju to Angang. For a while, South Korean troops were on his right. Then suddenly, one night, they weren't. The battalion was surrounded and had to fight its way out. That's routine enough. What was unusual about the weird action was that once out of the situation...
...Reds took Namwon, Kwangju and Mokpo-then, wheeling east, Posong, Sunchon, Yosu, Hadong, Ponggye. Elements of the Americans' tired and battered 24th Infantry Division, which needed a rest, and of the ist Cavalry Division, which could ill be spared from the central front, were wheeled 60 miles south to meet the threat. After the fall of Chinju, the next likely enemy objective was Masan-27 miles from Pusan...
...flank more or less stationary, and swing the rest of the line gradually south and east until the U.S. left flank came to rest safely on the southern coast near Pusan. The operation was endangered last week by a Red drive down Korea's western coast which captured Kwangju and pushed on towards Sunchon. This indicated that the Reds' main drive may not follow the U.S. retreat along the railroad into the very rough, defensible country southeast of Taejon...