Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flesh & Cinders. TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin cabled an eyewitness account of the Seoul street fighting...
...avalanche began to roll. Late the night before a motorized column of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, barreling up from the south, had joined hands with the X Corps pushing down from the Inchon beachhead. "Complete breakthrough," reported Tokyo. On Thursday the enemy's main force abandoned Seoul, his trapped divisions in the southwest fell apart. On Friday, U.N. communiques called it a "rout." By week's end, the avalanche had run its thunderous course. North Korean organized resistance had ended, U.N. forces were mopping up isolated remnants, the first U.N. division had crossed the 38th parallel...
...point, U.S. marines driving in to Seoul from the southwest were almost trapped by North Koreans. They were saved by the caution and good sense of the commander of the point company, Captain Robert Barrow of St. Francisville, La. Barrow took his men across the Seoul-Mukden railroad tracks, deployed them on a ridge and refused to advance past an apparently deserted group of buildings and a residential sector until he had scouted the ground...
Across the Parallel. Almost three months from the day it had fallen, Seoul was in U.N. hands. The North Koreans pulled out northward toward Uijongbu, a road and rail center 18 miles below the 38th parallel. Marine planes flattened the town with Tiny Tim rockets (1,284 Ibs. weight, 11.75 inches in diameter). One X Corps column raced eastward from Seoul to the Ichon area, where it linked up with South Korean troops sweeping the east coast...
...five-starred Chevrolet sedan, trailed by four other staff cars, 40 jeep-loads of newsmen and lesser brass, MacArthur rolled over the dusty road to Seoul. Along the capital's Mapo Boulevard, where the rubble of siege and street fighting had been hastily swept up, the general took the salute of South Korean troopers, the polite applause of white-garbed civilians...