Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allies stood at the abyss of disaster. The Chinese Communists, pouring across the Manchurian border in vast formations, had smashed the U.N. army, this week were clawing forward to pursue and destroy its still-organized fragments. Caught in the desperate retreat were 140,000 American troops, the flower of the U.S. Army-almost the whole effective Army the U.S. had. With them, fighting to establish a defensive position, were 20,000 British, Turkish and other allies, some 100,000 South Korean soldiers...
...first Chinese Red army. By 1930 it had grown to 60,000 men. Then Chiang, advised by a German, General Alexander von Falken-hausen, closed in with overwhelming numbers. Five years of dark and bloody Nationalist "annihilation" campaigns against the Reds finally drove Mao's remnant into the retreat now famous as the Long March, an epic ordeal of one year and 6,000 miles. Less than 20,000 Red army survivors reached their chosen base around Yenan, in remote northwest China, as near as practical to Stalin's Russia...
...correspondent who accompanied Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker's army by jeep said the retreat ended somewhere south of the 38th parallel, with the army moving into new positions there
Communist troops occupied Pyongyang yesterday, only eight hours after the U. N.'s rear guard left, despite heavy allied air attacks. The Eighth Army is reported to be stopping its southerly retreat somewhere below the 38th parallel, north of Seoul, and preparing to hold a line in the hills above the border...
...danger of a French defeat is serious. The French have not yet completed their retreat into the Red River delta. Under the guise of "regrouping operations," they will soon abandon Moncay. Already, Moncay's French and pro-French civil population has been evacuated by sea, the Moncay airfield destroyed. The terrain held by the French is complex-a network of dikes, soggy paddy fields and island-like villages fringed with bamboo and banana trees. Inside this area (slightly larger than the Pusan beachhead held by the U.S. in Korea last August) are hidden pockets of Communist troops, in some...