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Word: naktong (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pleasant Ride | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Over the Beaches | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

Battle Mountain & Bowling Alley. And it was not only the towns. The Naktong River was Korea's Somme. On the southern front, a few weeks ago, Negro troops of the 25th Division had fought doggedly for an eminence called Sobuk Ridge or "Battle Mountain," winning and losing it several times. Last week Battle Mountain was again soaked with blood; the 25th recaptured it, then lost it again. Farther north, the Communists' first big bulge across the Naktong below Changnyong had been obliterated; last week they had another across almost in the same place. In position before Changnyong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Sagging Roof | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

Troops of the U.S. and of Great Britain were battling side by side again. A U.S. liaison officer watched in admiration last week as the British troops dug in along the Naktong River line. "These fellows," he said, "are real professionals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comrades Again | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comrades Again | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

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