Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea, U.N. forces, advancing cautiously toward the Manchurian border, were slowed down more by their own supply difficulties than by enemy resistance. The Chinese had so far failed to follow up their first stroke of intervention. Last week's estimates of Chinese strength indicated that the Chinese offensive had been neither so big nor so bold as U.N. commanders had believed, in the initial shock of meeting fresh Chinese units in North Korea...
Douglas MacArthur's headquarters estimated last week that there were 60,000 Chinese Communist troops in North Korea, and no less than 500,000 more behind the Manchurian border. Chinese troops and material poured into North Korea, despite the heaviest Allied air attacks since September (see below). One more U.S. division-the 3rd Infantry-was added to the six already in Korea. The 3rd, which sailed some time ago from the U.S., had been held in Japan...
Points 2 and 3 were concessions to the hopeful British view that the Chinese had invaded Korea primarily to safeguard the North Korean dams which generate hydroelectric power used by Manchurian industry and furnish light to the Manchurian industrial center of Mukden, the Russian naval base at Port Arthur and Dairen. The British view was strengthened by the fact that Chinese troops had struck hardest in the area south of the Yalu River's 480-ft. Suiho Dam, which has a capacity of 700,000 kw., two-thirds as much as massive Hoover Dam. But supporters of the British...
...week's end the reality of jet combat -the fastest kind of fighting known to man-was becoming routine along the Korean-Manchurian border. At least five more Red jets were destroyed by U.S. jet fighters...
...Buzz Saw. Whether Chinese or Korean, the enemy had succeeded in breaking up a triumphant U.N. offensive, by midweek was harrying U.N. defenses. In the northwest powerful Red units had driven southwest from the Manchurian border to Unsan, 70 miles north of Pyongyang. Four overextended R.O.K. divisions -the ist, 6th, 7th and 8th-crumpled or were chopped up piecemeal in the Red attack. The enemy seemed to be trying to break the U.N. line below Unsan, then drive west along the Chongchon River to the coast...