Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week sudden death came to the Little Bulldog. From his command post he was riding to the front north of Seoul, to present unit citations to the 24th Division (first in Korea) and the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade, and a Silver Star to his son, Captain Sam Walker, a 24th Division combat officer. A three-ton truck driven by a South Korean pulled out of line in a southbound column, directly in the path of Walker's jeep. The general's driver could not avoid a collision. Walker was thrown to the road. He was dead when...
...eleven years, were waiting to be taken to an island off the South Korean coast. Some of the older ones were too weak from starvation to walk, or too sick (e.g., with scabies, whooping cough, tuberculosis). They were to have been settled in a children's refuge at Seoul, but U.N. reverses caused that plan to be abandoned...
...next day, on another mission, was the first time the 22-year-old, raised under the rule of law & order and under the Ten Commandments, killed a man. In his journal, Tatum wrote later in neat block letters: "Monday, August 7. Armed Recon Southwest Korea. Up to Taejon and Seoul. Shot up 2 junks, one supplies. Burned other troops. Burned in water." Somehow, he did not feel about the dead Koreans as he had about his father's sparrows. "Probably because I didn't have to pick up the Koreans and look at them...
...September 16. Strafed & killed many troops on road from Taejon to Seoul, strafed & sank junk full of troops on Han River northeast of Inchon. Caught troops coming out cave in hill to board junk. Many casualties...
Died. Lieut. General Walton Harris Walker, 61, commander of the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea; in a jeep accident; north of Seoul (see WAR IN ASIA...