Word: masan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Corporal Robert Davis, a big, serious-faced Negro BAR man from the 24th Infantry Regiment, and his buddy, Jimmy Wright, spent most of last week in a foxhole on a hilltop near Masan. They didn't remember all of what had happened to them, but they did remember some things. Davis told TIME Correspondent Jim Bell about them...
...Davis and Jimmy Wright had been told where to dig their foxhole, and where and when to fire their weapons. Their task was to protect a supply road between Masan and Chindong. Their captain had placed them on a rocky crag 1,000 feet above the road, on the road's right flank. They stayed there a long time...
...Communists kept on rolling. Some times they were stopped, temporarily; more often they advanced. At midweek, tank-led Red columns drove through Chinju and on toward Masan, only 30 miles from the main U.S. supply port of Pusan. West of Masan the grim and battered G.I.s of the U.S. 24th Division threw themselves into the line once more, and the Red advance ground to a halt. Lieut. General Walton H. Walker hastily moved the 25th Infantry Division to the southern front to shore up the 24th. This week the 24th had moved north, was facing another Red assault...
Last week 40-year-old Correspondent Moore left the 24th Division command post between Masan and Chinju and headed for the front in a jeep. He never got there. Next day, the Americans withdrew from the area. At week's end, Bill Moore was still missing, the ninth newsman killed or missing while covering the Korean...
...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...