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Screaming Tanks. The North Koreans had had their kettle knocked off the stove in the south, but in the center and east they had other pots to put on the fire. Red guerrillas, some of them disguised as civilians, had sporadically fired on the important U.S. airport at Pohang on the east coast (nicknamed Cleveland Municipal Airport by the home-town boosters who were based there). The guerrilla force had for several weeks showed up on operational maps as an ominous red circle, but U.S. officers dismissed it with: "Just a bunch of gooks scattered in the hills." Last week...
Fighter pilots, taking off under fire from the U.S. airstrip, began strafing the encircling Reds almost before their wheels were up. For safety they spent the first night at Taegu airfield, but came back to Pohang to fight again the next day. After delays due to a broken bridge and enemy ambushes, a U.S. armored rescue force arrived, led by Brigadier General J. Sladen Bradley, a tough fighter who rides into battle in his undershirt. But when Bradley got there, the Reds were in the town of Pohang, a burning ruin. Southeast of the town, ground crews, clerks and cooks...
Ashore, the G.I.s snapped to their task, moved out through Pohang to the front. "Our job," said General Gay crisply, "is to kill North Korean troops until the United Nations has won a victory in Korea." The U.S. buildup was on in earnest...
...after day Walker went back to the front, frequently using airplanes, including grasshopping liaison craft, and always refusing fighter cover. One trip took him to the east coast to inspect the 1st Cavalry's landing area at Pohang (see above). Walker had always been a man to avoid the limelight, a quality which had long endeared him to less modest superiors. Now he was, willy-nilly, caught in the glare of public attention and public concern...
...after a thorough physical examination at Walter Reed General Hospital, General Gay had been certified fit for full duty. On the same day that Pearson's column appeared, the newspapers blared across their front pages the news that Gay had led his division in an amphibious landing at Pohang, Korea (see WAR IN ASIA...