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...candlepower, the Air Force was beginning to turn night into day over selected areas of the front lines. The flares brilliantly illuminated vehicle columns, tanks, ammunition and supply dumps, or enemy infantry positions for allied artillery or night-flying B-26 Invaders armed with machine guns, bombs, rockets and napalm.-The nights which the enemy had comfortably used for resupply, regrouping, attack and infiltration were gradually being taken away from him. Last week TIME Correspondent...
...31st -had moved around the right flank of the Wonju salient and were trying desperately last week to encircle the 2nd Division. Yongwol, a tungsten-mining town on the headwaters of the Han, changed hands even oftener than Wonju, and was razed by allied planes dropping napalm. R.O.K. units reported themselves "locked in combat" with the North Koreans, and 10,000 U.S. troops rushed to the scene. Finally, instead of trapping the Americans, the North Koreans were trapped themselves. Allied infantry, tanks, artillery and planes began chopping them down at the rate of about...
Flaming Broom. At Kimpo airfield, there was no time to save 500,000 gallons of fuel and 23,000 gallons of napalm (jellied gasoline for fire bombs). They went up in black smoke. The airfield barracks were soaked with kerosene; then a captain ran from one to another, setting them afire with a flaming broom. At Inchon, the port troops and thousands of civilians were evacuated under the guns of warships of five nations (U.S., British, Canadian, Australian, Dutch). The last two LSTs were floated off the mud flats by a high tide as the Chinese were swarming into...
...nine 16-in. guns can fire one-ton projectiles more than 20 miles) and from cruisers, destroyers and rocket ships. Overhead were swarms of Air Force planes, and Navy and marine planes from at least five carriers (including the Philippine Sea, the Leyte, the Princeton), scourging the enemy with napalm (jellied gasoline), rockets, bombs and machine guns. The airmen had to quit at night, but all through the hours of darkness the land and naval guns kept up the barrage under the glare of star shells...
...east coast of the peninsula. The enemy's vehicles moved warily by night, were pulled off the roads and skillfully camouflaged during the day. North of Pyongyang, U.N. planes claimed the destruction in one 24-hour period of 85 trucks carrying tanks and artillery. Rockets and napalm bombs hit supply dumps, barracks and training camps in the North Korean defense line...