Word: naktong
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Heaviest strike of the week and second heaviest of the war (the biggest was along the Naktong River near Waegwan...
...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...
...southern front, the job of leading the breakthrough from the Naktong went to Lieut. Robert W. Baker, 25, hamhanded, barrel-chested commander of Company C, yoth Tank Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division...
...Tuesday his resistance still seemed determined. The high command in Tokyo announced the capture of Seoul, but within the battered capital fierce street battles raged. Along the southern perimeter, the North Korean withdrawal from the Naktong went stubbornly...