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...Communists were getting starved for new victories, too. North of Taegu, a Red army corps of three divisions tried for four nights on end to barrel their armor down a poplar-lined stretch of road held by Colonel John ("Mike") MichaehV crack 2;th Regiment (see below). After six days & nights in this sector, the mauled Communist divisions pulled back out of U.S. artillery range...
...Division had been reinforced, the Reds quickly recovered from Task Force Kean's "spoiling attack" (TIME, Aug. 21) and hammered again at the approaches to Masan, the main gateway to Pusan. But this time, no overly expensive spoiling attack was needed to save Pusan. The 5th Regimental Combat Team and the 24th Regiment (the 25th Division's crack Negro outfit) struggled valiantly for upland vantage points called Battle Mountain and Sobuk Ridge. Half a dozen times the heights changed hands. At one stage the doughfeet were described as hanging on "by their toenails"-but they did hang...
...skillful attack from a jump-off point northeast of the target area and smashed due south, capturing Kunwi and Kumhwa, and pushing back the South Korean ist and 6th Divisions. But the courageous South Koreans managed to regroup. They were reinforced by the 27th ("Wolfhound") Regiment of the U.S. 25th Division, which was hurried to the scene all the way from the south coast. The 27th is commanded by 38-year-old Colonel John ("Mike") Michaelis of Lancaster, Pa., who has made a brilliant record in the Korean war and whose outfit is being used by General Walton Walker...
...Task Force Kean"* (the 35th Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division, the 5th Regimental Combat Team and elements of the 1st Marine Division which landed last fortnight) jumped off, Negro units holding a flanking ridge were due to be relieved by marines. But alert North Koreans slipped in, beat back the marines, brought up machine guns and artillery, opened fire on the vehicle-crammed road and on U.S. artillery positions and command posts...
Corporal Robert Davis, a big, serious-faced Negro BAR man from the 24th Infantry Regiment, and his buddy, Jimmy Wright, spent most of last week in a foxhole on a hilltop near Masan. They didn't remember all of what had happened to them, but they did remember some things. Davis told TIME Correspondent Jim Bell about them...