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...Practice. Concentrating 30,000 troops on a half-mile front, the Chinese mauled a regiment of the R.O.K. 1st Division, broke through and fanned out, threatening an adjacent U.S. division from the rear. Then the planned Allied retreat began. Once more, the bumper-to-bumper vehicle columns rolled south. It was a scorched-earth retreat: the troops and the aircraft burned every building in which the pursuing foe could take shelter...
Maps in the Dining Room. The G.I. belonged to Colonel John ("Mike") Michaelis' proud 27th Infantry Regiment, which had put the fear of the U.S. Army into many a North Korean soldier. Now it was screening the U.N. retreat in this section of the city. Michaelis had set up his command post in the dining room. He stood before his tactical maps with his division commander, Major General John Church, commanding officer of the U.S. 24th Division. There had been some concern that the Chinese-who had started to move into the city from the north and northeast that...
...Yongsan, Korea, handsome Master Sergeant Travis Watkins, 29, of Gladewater, Texas, took command of 30 infantrymen who had been cut off from their regiment, led them to a defensive position where they held out for four days under unremitting Communist attack. When ammunition ran low on Sept. 2, Watkins shot five North Koreans outside his perimeter, calmly left shelter to get their weapons and ammunition. Although wounded himself, he fired on six other Reds who threatened to enfilade the American position. His back was broken by enemy machine-gun fire, but he continued to fire until all six were killed...
...Division's 17th Regiment, which last month had stood briefly on the Yalu (it was the only U.S. unit to reach that fateful river), had also made its way down from the mountains to Hamhung. Altogether some 60,000 men of X Corps, including two R.O.K. divisions, were in the port area awaiting evacuation by a huge fleet of allied ships. Fresh troops, mostly 3rd and 7th Division units which had not been chewed up by prior fighting, manned a defense perimeter around Hungnam, the port...
Said Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller, famed battle-scarred commander of the 1st Marine Regiment: "We'll suffer heavy losses. The enemy greatly outnumbers...