Word: pyongchang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offensive began at 10 a.m. on Wednesday. The IX Corps led the way on the western flank and the X Corps on the eastern flank of a 60-mile front twisting across the mountains between Yangpyong and Pyongchang. Right from the start the going was sticky and slow. Enemy resistance was light at first, but rain fell heavily, turning frozen paddy fields into treacherous brown slime. Drenched men and vehicles slithered through deep...
...week's end the advance had bagged Pyongchang and Pangnim, some 20 miles from the jumping-off place. The enemy was losing up to 2,100 casualties a day. His resistance had changed from light to "moderate" to "stiff." On the west flank, where the Han River bends south from the Seoul flatlands, he held stubbornly...
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