Word: sinanju
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...hours after the ist Cavalry Division had run into the Chinese counterattack of last Halloween, the airlift had switched from gas and C rations to ammunition and medical supplies. Sometimes, too, the situation called for a fast switch in reverse. Just before the last transport plane pulled out of Sinanju last week, one of Tunner's men noticed on the airfield 25 loaves of specially baked and blessed Moslem bread, the remnants of four tons flown in to supply the Turkish Brigade. The pilot carefully poured gasoline on the bread and set it afire before he departed. Said...
...Chinese hordes poured around the Eighth Army's open right flank, the 24th, 2nd and 25th Divisions fell back to the Chongchon and began crossing at Sinanju (see map), where a valuable airfield was lost, Anju and Kunu farther upriver. It was obvious that General Walker would have to keep his whole Eighth Army moving south if it was not to be trapped or rolled up from the flank...
...occasion seemed important enough to merit another MacArthur visit to the front. On a bitterly cold but sunny morning, three hours after his divisions jumped off, MacArthur's Constellation, the SCAP, landed on Sinanju's bumpy airfield. Welcomed by a cluster of his top brass, the general climbed into a jeep and pulled the hood of his pile-lined parka over his head. In the back seat rode the Eighth Army's Lieut. General Walton Walker...
Burning Mountains. Southwest of Unsan, the wheeling Red offensive carried to within 15 miles of Sinanju, a vital U.N. transportation and supply center, and threatened both the rear and right flank of the U.S. 24th Infantry Division. The 24th, which had pushed one spearhead to within 14 miles of the mouth of the Yalu River, promptly pulled back nearly 50 miles to the west coast town of Chongju...