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...division as a military adviser: "These are tough guys . . . They march at night with hardly any clothes, just a rag around their feet inside their shoes, and it just about freezes me." Just before dusk one evening the "tough guys" of the 6th Division's 7th Regiment pushed through the border town of Chosan, 130 miles north of Pyongyang, and drove to the south bank of the Yalu...
...morning last week, two U.N. columns jumped off for the final assault on the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. The 5th Regiment of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division drove out of the mountains 16 miles south of Pyongyang. The R.O.K. 1st Division punched in from a point eight miles southeast of the city. The R.O.K. troops were commanded by Brigadier General Paik Sun Yup, a man with a grim ambition to be the first into Pyongyang. Five years ago the city's Communist rulers had sawed off the head of General Paik's baby...
Over Korea the SCAP joined an armada of 80 C119s and 40 C-47s 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...
...paid homage at a hillside cemetery where lie Americans and Koreans killed in the Inchon campaign. He was host at a dinner for Marine regimental commanders, giving weatherbeaten Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller of the 1st Marine Regiment the place of honor. On the Inchon waterfront Almond saw tanks loaded aboard LSTs. He flew in a Piper Cub 200 miles south to inspect the 7th Infantry Division in another staging area; he watched the doughfeet, stripped to the waist in the warm South Korean sun, maneuver through combat exercises in paddy fields and up hillsides...
...92nd combat record was spotty. It became a polyglot group, absorbing other U.S. and Allied contingents. On the 366th Regiment's front, some Negro troops fell back precipitately before an enemy attack,* a British Indian unit had to close the gap in the line. Once, at a forward post under machine-gun fire, Almond ordered a sergeant to go out and silence the enemy gun. After a while the sergeant came back...