Word: naktong
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...bloody battles, the U.S. beat back a massive enemy thrust at Taegu and shrank or wiped out the Red bridgeheads across the Naktong River. On the east coast, the South Koreans lost Pohang, regained it after U.S. reinforcements sped to help them...
...power of this offensive was amazing. Once more the enemy won bridgeheads across the Naktong, bigger than ever. Once more Taegu was threatened, not only frontally but by envelopment from the east. The northern front, from Taegu to the Japan Sea, sagged menacingly. On the east coast the South Koreans were thrown into chaotic disorder...
...fragments. On the Han River with Marines driving toward Seoul, 23-year-old William Blair Jr. of the Baltimore Sun was shot in the back by a sniper. The New York Times's Harold Faber was shot in the thigh while covering an Eighth Army assault across the Naktong River...
Across the Naktong. In the U.N. beachhead around Pusan, General Walton Walker's Eighth Army (four U.S. divisions, five South Korean divisions and a British brigade) went over to a general offensive. The aim was to break the enemy ring and link up with the U.N. forces fighting their way east from Inchon. Initial advances along the 120-mile perimeter were spotty. Nevertheless, at week's end Walker's men had established bridgeheads on the west bank of the Naktong...
Part of the Britons' cool thoroughness was explained by their months of field training at Hong Kong, part by their commander, big, affable Brigadier Basil Aubrey Coad, who moved constantly through his positions on the Naktong with the cool aplomb of a duke at a garden party. During the first day's action, one British company was cut off. No one got excited. Coad calmly ordered the company supplied by tanks and an airdrop, and a U.S. helicopter went into the cut-off company and brought out its first wounded. The British thought this was a particularly admirable...