Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their side of the border the French run up their flag. Then a Legionnaire unlocks an iron-barred gate which at night closes one end of the narrow steel bridge over the Song Kalong. The bridge is Indo-China's last link with China. Northward the whole frontier lies wide open...
...Marine Division entered the abandoned town of Hakalwoo, three-fourths destroyed by Allied air attacks. The marines pushed north along both sides of the reservoir without finding the enemy. The 24th Division, entering Pakchon (near the west coast), were told by villagers that the Reds had departed northward four days earlier...
Many of MacArthur's advance units were cut off and trapped; the main line was hastily drawn back and consolidated. Two hundred and eighty thousand U. N. troops are now tied down in the cautions push northward as winter sets...
...Tuesday morning Baker received an order to head northward from Poun and keep going until he linked up with the U.S. 7th Division. At 11:30 a.m., his company took off-three Sherman tanks, preceded by three intelligence and reconnaissance jeeps. At Chongju, a group of weeping women told Baker's dust-stained men that the Reds in the town were holding their husbands and families as hostages and that all would be killed if the tanks continued their advance. Said Baker later: "Our orders were to go through, so we went through...
Across the Parallel. Almost three months from the day it had fallen, Seoul was in U.N. hands. The North Koreans pulled out northward toward Uijongbu, a road and rail center 18 miles below the 38th parallel. Marine planes flattened the town with Tiny Tim rockets (1,284 Ibs. weight, 11.75 inches in diameter). One X Corps column raced eastward from Seoul to the Ichon area, where it linked up with South Korean troops sweeping the east coast...