Word: suwon
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...retreating South Korean cavalryman reined in his horse on a muddy road near Suwon one day last week, waved wildly at a U.S. bazooka team and shouted a warning: "Tanks, tanks!" Then he spurred his mount southward. The cavalryman was neither coward nor fool; he had already learned what many a U.S. soldier would learn in full and bitter measure before the tide of battle turned: the Communist ground forces, for the moment at least, had the better weapons...
When he took off again from Suwon airstrip, MacArthur, who had planned to spend two days in Korea, had been there only eight hours. Some read this change of plans as a bad sign. It was. Behind MacArthur lay a disintegrating South Korean army. Before him lay a battle which might, at the worst, take a place in U.S. history alongside the battle of Bataan...
...There, eh Ned?" In Suwon Mac-Arthur was met by Syngman Rhee, President of the Korean Republic. Rhee, too. had come to Suwon by air; his light observation plane had eluded a North Korean fighter only by hedgehopping...
...smoke from fires set by enemy shelling. Clearly audible was the crump of Communist mortars over the river. Below the hill a railroad bridge still stood intact, capable of supporting tanks and heavy trucks. Field glasses in hand, MacArthur ordered the bridge destroyed. Then he headed back for Suwon...
...Fatal Mistake." The descent from the triumph of V-J Day to the day of desperation at Suwon had been dizzyingly swift. Communist imperialism began its march through Asia before V-J Day. It used the most mobile of weapons, political agitation and ruthless organization. In Korea-as in China, Indo-China, Malaya and Burma-native Communists, shouting slogans of freedom and independence, were forging for their people heavier chains of slavery than even Asia had ever known...