Word: regroups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sixth day, General Kim's forces stumbled northward to regroup. Mike Michaelis stretched out on the ground under a poplar tree outside his command post. He yawned. "Kim's mission was to knock me off this road and take Taegu," said Mike. "He failed. He's going to try another way, but we beat him here...
...enemy divisions mounted a massive (30,000 men) and 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...
...narrow escape here about two or three days ago. Lost a lot of good men. Hope we never get into a scrape like that again. Present time we're trying to regroup...
...South Koreans who got across the Han fled toward Suwon, 20 miles to the south, where Brigadier General John H. Church, acting KMAG commander, and his staff had set up headquarters. Around this base South Korean commanders managed to regroup some units and truck them north to hold the river line. By the time they arrived, however, the Communists were already putting their dreaded tanks across the river on rafts and pontoon bridges. Again the South Koreans, now short of weapons of any sort, wavered and broke, and the Communists pushed on. Meanwhile, U.S. jets and F82 Twin Mustangs were...