Word: pohang
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...mighty battleship Missouri steamed far up Korea's eastern shore, fired 16-in. gun salvos on Samchok, important port and rail town. South Korean commandos raided the beach above Pohang. Then South Korean marines struck at Kunsan on the peninsula's west coast. But that, too, was a feint. The enemy did not suspect that the place would be Inchon, the port of Seoul, 150 miles northwest of Taegu. But Inchon it was, in spite of a formidable high tide* and a treacherous, silt-filled channel...
...coast-had not caved in, but it was sagging. The loss of territory (see map) was disturbing enough; more so was the threat to Kyongju, communications hub of the northeast corner. The enemy got to within four miles of Kyongju. The Reds seized nearly the whole of the Yongchon-Pohang road and brought the Yongchon-Kyongju road under interdiction fire. Since General Walker had no reserves and could spare no front-line troops from any other sector, he was forced to pull the 24th Division (first U.S. division committed in Korea) from a rest area and send it back...
...Allied-German lines swayed and writhed across France, the same towns came again & again into the news as they changed hands-Arras, Amiens, Cambrai, Soissons. Korea was producing another crop of such towns, won and lost in a matter of weeks or days instead of years. Pohang, Angang, Yong-chon, Hyonpung and Changnyong had changed hands at least three times. And such towns as Taegu, the northwestern "turntable," and Masan, the south coast anchor, were in the news day after day, because they were under almost constant threat...
...Pohang, a minor but useful port, had been lost to the enemy last month arid then retaken by the South Koreans in what they prematurely called their "greatest victory of the war." Last week, cracking before a tremendous Red onslaught, they lost Pohang again. Pohang's airport, which a U.S. task force was defending, was still in Allied hands at week...
...Divisions (now northwest of Taegu). Next are troops who had served before with the Chinese Communist armies. They are well-trained and possibly the most hardened troops of the lot. They comprise the bulk of the 4th (now in the southwest near Yongsan), 5th (at Pohang) and 6th (fighting fiercely near Haman) Divisions. The third class of North Korean troops are hastily conscripted reserves, both North and South Koreans...