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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...
This week, in a report to the U.N., MacArthur was more specific. He listed six instances of anti-aircraft fire from the Manchurian side of the Yalu River on U.N. planes; the intervention of Chinese Communist combat units, totaling 7,500 troops, north of Hamhung and south of the Suiho Dam; and the information from captured Chinese Red Army men of other units in action. The Supreme Commander's clipped conclusion: "[These] are mat ters which it is incumbent upon me to bring at once to the attention of the United Nations...
...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...