Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After two weeks of aggressive patrolling and probing attacks, the U.N. units below Seoul jumped off last week in a much stronger and broader drive, officially labeled a "limited objective attack...
...report to Secretary Marshall and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Pentagon had its most buoyant week since November. In the field, the 3rd Division's Major General Robert H. Soule displayed a gamecock's confidence: "If they order us, we will go back and take Seoul. We can stop anything they [the Communists] can throw...
...last week, in the western flatlands below Seoul, U.S. tanks found good going on hard-frozen roads. Out of recaptured Osan, two armor-tipped task forces -officially labeled a "reconnaissance in force"-rumbled north at 15 to 20 m.p.h. They caught most of the Chinese garrison in Suwon warming themselves in houses. The first shot was fired by an 18-year-old pfc. who spotted a Red scampering across a field, dropped him with one rifle bullet...
Look's editors had cabled Bigart for "a report on the situation in Korea," after he had made much the same charges early in December in a dispatch to the Herald Tribune from Seoul. MacArthur had ignored the Trib story. But this time, prompted by Radio Commentator Robert Montgomery, MacArthur fired off a scorching reply to Bigart's article...
...since U.N. forces in the central mountains were bravely and skillfully holding the Reds back from mountain passes that meant access to the plains north of Pusan. Below Wonju, the U.S. and Division, aided by French and Dutch battalions, held on. In the first counterattack since the fall of Seoul, they fought back briefly into the town, withdrew under small-arms fire...