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First Driblet. The South Koreans were in a complete and, apparently, hopeless rout. Suwon and its airfield were lost and Red flanking drives to the east were under way when the first driblet of U.S. ground troops-two battalions of the 24th Infantry Division-reached the zone of battle...
...workout was the sophomore hopeful Mitch Price. Price broke into the Lion backfield in spectacular fashion last weekend when he completed six out of seven passes thrown. On the field he showed poise and leadership beyond his 18 years while directing his mates to a 42 to 12 rout of Hobart College...
...turnpike, only 100 yards from the Confederate lines. His next move was even more disastrous: he followed the Federals a few miles north, and "without adequate artillery and over the protests of his officers," bled his army in a foolhardy frontal assault. His blind courage led straight to his rout at Nashville 16 days later, and his resignation...
...Koreans and a small armored U.S. force held him by the nose (as the late George Patton used to say) with a frontal attack. The U.S. Air Force moved its planes back to Pohang airfield. The Communists were pushed back toward Yongdok. Jubilant South Korean commanders called it a rout...
Like Civil War Prints. General Walker appeared in his fast-moving, heavily armed, two-jeep convoy and ordered the attack speeded up. A U.S. night attack-hitherto a North Korean specialty-helped. As enemy frontal resistance lessened, headquarters spokesmen in Tokyo talked confidently of U.S. "pursuit," of an enemy "rout." This was an exaggeration. The forward speed of the U.S. drive was painfully slow and enemy pockets on the flanks had to be rooted out laboriously...