Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sealing Off. U.N. commanders, who had expected to pay heavily for Pyongyang, found the city dotted with carefully prepared 76-mm. gun positions and innumerable sandbag barricades. But many of the positions had been left unmanned, and most of the Red soldiers who had been assigned to defend Pyongyang quickly threw up their hands. On the roads running north from Pyongyang, U.N. pilots spotted some 20,000 North Korean troops, some fleeing afoot, some by truck or by oxcart...
...which carried the men and equipment of the 11th Airborne Division's 187th Regiment. From Seoul's Kimpo Airport the airborne task force flew deep into North Korea. There, while MacArthur's plane circled overhead, one battalion of paratroopers dropped on Sukchon, 26 miles northwest of Pyongyang, another battalion at Sunchon, 28 miles northeast of Pyongyang...
...artillery dropped onto flat, dry rice fields. Within an hour the drops had been completed and Red troops in the drop area driven off. Within another hour the paratroopers had sealed off the two highways and rail lines along which the routed North Koreans had hoped to escape from Pyongyang. Said MacArthur: "It looked perfect to me. It looks like it closed the trap...
...high spirits, MacArthur flew back to Pyongyang. Waiting to meet him there was Lieut. General Walton Walker, commander of the Eighth Army. Quipped MacArthur: "Have you got any celebrities here to greet me? What about Kim Buck...
...Manchurian border was well started. Six hours after the air drop, the R.O.K. 6th Division had linked up with the paratroopers, was rolling northwest from Sunchon. Next day, while 1,800 more paratroopers jumped in to reinforce the Sunchon area, 1st Cavalry Division spearheads raced up from Pyongyang to join the airborne units. Supported by the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade, the cavalrymen and paratroopers began to move up the west coast...