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Walker laughed, admitted that Kim II Sung had escaped him. To Walker, MacArthur gave orders that South Korean forces should begin an all-out drive for the Manchurian border. Then the 70-year-old supreme commander boarded the SCAP again, headed back to Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Damn Good Job | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

Muscling In. The drive for the Manchurian border was well started. Six hours after the air drop, the R.O.K. 6th Division had linked up with the paratroopers, was rolling northwest from Sunchon. Next day, while 1,800 more paratroopers jumped in to reinforce the Sunchon area, 1st Cavalry Division spearheads raced up from Pyongyang to join the airborne units. Supported by the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade, the cavalrymen and paratroopers began to move up the west coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Damn Good Job | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

Outflanked. For supplies the Communists depended largely on road communications extending 100 to 300 miles from the Manchurian and Siberian borders. U.N. air power harassed and hampered these lines. They could be cut at a critical point by a U.N. landing above or below the mudflats on the west coast opposite Pyongyang. Once MacArthur's men were ashore again, the U.N. would have another anvil on which the hammer of troops advancing from the south could crush the enemy's last organized forces and thus pound out the final victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Phase | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...enemy answer to Douglas MacArthur's call for surrender was quickly spotted by a U.N. plane. Winging far up North Korea, a U.S. 5th Air Force fighter-bomber, on a night intruder mission, saw vehicles rolling down from the Manchurian border. They moved in widely spaced clusters, strung over 100 miles of road. Clearly, with supplies from the Chinese and Russian comrades over the border, the enemy was feverishly building up a defense 80 miles north of the 38th parallel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Across the Parallel | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...conglomerate Russian-led army of Chinese, Mongolians, Koreans and Japanese is posted along the north Manchurian frontier. Numbers and organization unknown, they form a reservoir of indoctrinated troops who can be used in their native lands whenever necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGER ZONES: 150,000 Big Noses | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

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