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...Wonsan, U.S. Marines were moving south to reinforce the battered spearhead near Kojo, and a battalion of R.O.K. Marines had landed below Kojo to form the southern arm of a pincers closing in on the "Diamond Mountain Gang." Other U.S. Marines were pushing north from Wonsan toward Hamhung. At Hamhung the Marines might face a bitter fight to keep open supply lines to the R.O.K. I Corps (the 3rd and Capitol Divisions) and to the U.S. 7th Infantry Division, which had completed an unopposed landing at Iwon, 80 miles up the east coast from Hamhung. Originally scheduled to come ashore...
...following day and the day after, he would bob up in other meetings, often unannounced, to fire the same kind of political birdshot. In such a manner last week, 58-year-old Joe Ferguson, son of a coal miner, was hunting "Mr. Republican" himself. Joe was the cast-iron spearhead of the campaign to get Robert A. Taft out of the U.S. Senate...
...Their Toenails. Two of these divisions shifted to the east, away from the Americans, where they threw an armored spearhead at the South Koreans on the Uisong-Yongchon road (see map). This was flat country, good for tanks, and the South Koreans gave ground, but this week they were holding and Yongchon was not seriously threatened...
Where once the invaders used 20 or more tanks to spearhead major assaults, he now used three or four. When he was presented with juicy targets, his artillery was often silent, presumably for lack of shells. Many North Korean prisoners complained of short rations...
...hour-to-hour operations of MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo. Doyle Hickey has to cope with an enemy whose greatest combat advantage lies in superior armor-an ironic twist for the general who during World War II had fought with and eventually commanded the famed 3rd Armored Division, spearhead of the First U.S. Army from St. Lò to the Elbe...