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First Driblet. The South Koreans were in a complete and, apparently, hopeless rout. Suwon and its airfield were lost and Red flanking drives to the east were under way when the first driblet of U.S. ground troops-two battalions of the 24th Infantry Division-reached the zone of battle...
...North Koreans must have felt abandoned by their Big Brothers in the Kremlin, but they fought savagely for Seoul while U.S. spearheads from the southeast raced to a junction with the 7th Infantry below Suwon. MacArthur announced the fall of Seoul eleven days after the Inchon landing (street fighting continued for three days more). While the Eighth Army, streaming out of the old perimeter in all directions, mopped up the liberated countryside, the South Koreans crossed the 38th parallel...
...Baker saw U.S. tank treadmarks on the road just below Suwon. He halted his column and jumped out yelling: "This is 1st Cavalry. This is 1st Cavalry!" G.I.s of the 7th Division, who were dug in by the roadside waiting to take care of what they thought was a Red advance, recognized his vehicles. Baker had led a dash of 106.4 miles in eleven hours, had tied the U.N. advance from the south with U.S. troops in the north. It was a slender thread soon to become a mighty noose around 50,000 enemy troops...
...south prong-a regiment under famed Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller-fought a hand-to-hand battle in Yongdung, where the main Inchon-Seoul road joins the southbound road to Suwon. Scores of bayoneted Reds perished...
After three years of able postwar reporting in Germany, she became the Trib's Tokyo bureau chief in late June, was one of the first reporters to get to Korea when the war started. She flew to Seoul's Kimpo airfield, joined the retreat to Suwon, later covered the heartbreaking retreats of green, outnumbered U.S. troops. ("This is how America lost her first infantryman," she began her story of seeing Private Kenneth Shadrick fall in action.) She fought off attempts by officers, worried about her safety, to ship her out of Korea (TIME, July 24, 31), now stays...