Word: naktong
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...quickening of U.S. mobilization-a gradual process, partly concealed by security rules-could hardly be seen last week in the August sun. But the quiet was deceptive: Americans cocked an anxious ear to the sounds of the battle along the Naktong. In such a week, an urbane Briton had something to say about the U.S. attitude...
Persistent Rats. One of the two remaining airfields in the beachhead was at Taegu-and Taegu itself was gravely threatened. On the central front, it seemed as hard to prevent the Reds from crossing the Naktong as to stop rats from boarding a moored ship. In some places, the sluggish green water was shallow enough to wade across. At night, free from Allied air attack, the North Koreans put tanks across on barges and hastily built log and stone causeways, whose top surfaces were a foot under water and hard to see from the air. Once, in full daylight, under...
...command post above the Naktong River one night last week, infantrymen of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division fiddled with a radio. They picked up a North Korean station and got the brassy blare of a Sousa march. It was followed by the honeyed words (in English) of a woman announcer, urging the boys to "go back home to your corner drugstores" and boasting of fantastic North Korean successes ("already there are 6,000 U.S. dead...
...western front, the Communists launched flanking movements in an effort to trap the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division in the Sobaek Mountains. But the 1st Cavalry, in a crafty withdrawal across to the east bank of the Naktong River, escaped a two-pronged Red drive from the west and north. While the G.I.s of the 1st Cavalry dug in, the Communists made a series of bloody, small-scale thrusts across the river. Their goal : the South Korean provisional capital of Taegu, only seven miles from the Naktong...
...Marine action was part of a general plan to prevent enemy troops from crossing the Naktong River in strength. Jet F-80 Shooting Stars and F-51 Mustangs ranged up & down the river valley looking for enemy concentrations, went after patrols that managed to get across. Rainstorms prevented constant vigilance, but on one fair day the Far East Air Forces and Royal Australian Air Force fighters and bombers flew a record 550 sorties...