Word: naktong
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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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...
...Communists surely knew it. They were massing on the southern and western fronts for two major drives: one straight at Pusan, the other to take Taegu, the communications hub of the northern half of the U.N. defense line. The Reds had already established several small bridgeheads east of the Naktong River near Taegu, and the city itself was under enemy artillery fire...
...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 on the Naktong River...
...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...