Word: munsan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...west, where the enemy had some 30 or 40 divisions assembled for an all-out onslaught on Seoul. The U.N. forces broke contact and retreated rapidly, forcing the Chinese to advance over a no man's land that was kept under merciless allied artillery fire. After Munsan and Uijongbu had been abandoned to the Reds, the Reds reached the Han, between Seoul and the sea, and started a drive (the southern prong of a three-pronged attack) on the capital. Allied guns fired on them from the city's streets, and warships standing...
Enemy artillery bellowed through the night. Two Pattons flared fiercely under hits. Two others struck mines. The column rolled into battered Munsan through vicious enemy rifle and machine-gun fire. Throughout the night, Reds to the north and east shelled and mortared paratroopers and rangers who were stalking the rear elements of a North Korean motorized regiment which had been retreating north when cut off by "Operation Tomahawk." The Red guns were still going throughout the next morning. Helicopters threshed in to dusty landings in the D.Z. and whirred up again with wounded men. In the sunlight, the red, blue...
...paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regiment floated to earth near Munsan, an armored force 30 miles away was moving to join up with them. With the overland operation was TIME Correspondent Tom Lambert. His report...
GOOD Friday morning was cold, brisk and sunny. Lieut. Colonel John S. Growdon of San Antonio moved his task force of Patton tanks through the South Korean 1st Division lines a few miles north of Seoul and headed for the D.Z. (drop zone) at Munsan...
...Home. In the twilight, infantrymen moving forward on tanks, armored-personnel carriers and trucks, buttoned their field jackets against the chill and dug into canned rations. Some huddled close to their vehicle's radio, listening to reports of a California basketball game. Task Force Growdon rolled on toward Munsan...