Word: pyonggang
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...dominating peaks. From the top of Heartbreak Ridge, the allies could look down over the wide Mundung Valley, in the direction of the so-called Iron Triangle from which the Communists have mounted many attacks. Realizing that the allies were now in position to streak down the valley toward Pyonggang, the Communists sent their fiercest counterattacks into this sector, but at week's end they had not dislodged the U.N. soldiers...
...rain-fogged peaks and in Korea's muddy valleys, the watchful armies prodded and jabbed fitfully at each other. Neither side threw any haymakers, nor did either side drop its guard. A U.N. task force clanked out beyond the front lines and into Pyonggang at the apex of the "Iron Triangle" on the east-central front, found the battered town deserted, drew back again. A British Commonwealth unit, marooned in Red territory north of the Imjin when that river flooded, competently muffled Communist thrusts for five days until bridges were restored for a withdrawal. North of Hwachon, the Communists...
...armored forces overran the Communists' "iron triangle" without much trouble, capturing large enemy stores of ammunition, fuel, rifles, burp guns, mines, grenades, TNT, and medical supplies. Two U.N. columns of more than 100 tanks closed in on Pyonggang* at the triangle's northern point, and found it empty. But when enemy resistance stiffened to the north and east, the allies pulled back out of the town. The U.N. offensive stalled...
...front base of operations to Kumsong, and he stopped the allies cold on the approaches. Every ridge seemed to be swarming with Chinese. Both in the center and in the west, the Chinese brought up reinforcements. More Red artillery appeared, dueled with U.S. guns. The Chinese moved back into Pyonggang and shelled U.S. patrols in the triangle area...
...allied advance in the center and the Reds' tenacious stand in the east had left them with a huge salient bulging into the Eighth Army's right flank. Last week, hopeful dispatches mentioned the possibility of cutting off this salient by a thrust from the Pyonggang area north to the port of Wonsan. On the map, another allied move seemed to be possible: an invasion of the Wonsan area from the sea. If a beachhead could be established there, the base of the enemy salient could be squeezed from both sides and .would probably become untenable. It would...
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