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Chinese-North Korean armies have cut off the read between Hamhung and Woman on the east coast, and have increased their pressure on trapped elements of the U. S. First Marine Division, cut off at the southern tip of the Changlin reservoir. At Kote, just north of Hamhung, Marines of the First Regiment were surrounded and greatly outnumbered by heavy enemy concentrations...
Crucial Arena. On the X Corps' front, which covered all the rest of the looping Allied line to the east coast, the enemy showed no such fight. The marines, probing carefully north along both sides of the Changjin reservoir, took the town of Udam on a western arm of the lake. On the Yalu, the 7th Division, moving west, extended its river frontage to ten miles. On the east coast, South Koreans seized the important but ruined port of Chongjin, pushed on north...
...Yalu power sites, that the enemy had the bulk of his men and his strongest preparations for defense. General MacArthur would have to get his western offensive rolling again quickly to make good on the bold words of his opening-day communiqué. MacArthur ordered the marines at Changjin reservoir to strike west toward the flank of the rampaging Chinese. The marines moved three miles west, then stalled against stubborn resistance...
...south end of the Changjin Reservoir, the 1st Marine Division entered the abandoned town of Hakalwoo, three-fourths destroyed by Allied air attacks. The marines pushed north along both sides of the reservoir without finding the enemy. The 24th Division, entering Pakchon (near the west coast), were told by villagers that the Reds had departed northward four days earlier...
...lull in the ground action went on for four days, except for sputtering local fights. After chewing up seven of the nine Chinese regiments which had surrounded them, the marines were in sight of Changjin reservoir. The final crust of enemy resistance in that area was broken by fierce Allied air attacks with rockets and jellied gasoline. Within a few miles of the reservoir, the marines sat down. All four of the Changjin power plants were in their hands...