Word: taegu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pusan if they had struck with greater force on the south coast. But it was too early to feel safe. The North Koreans still held the initiative, still fought with unabated fury -and apparently, with ample reserves-to destroy the U.S. beachhead. They had assembled massive forces aimed at Taegu (see map). Tough, ubiquitous General Walton Walker was still forced to shuttle his units from one crisis to another, like a Dutch boy trying to plug four holes in the dike with two thumbs...
Fighter pilots, taking off under fire from the U.S. airstrip, began strafing the encircling Reds almost before their wheels were up. For safety they spent the first night at Taegu airfield, but came back to Pohang to fight again the next day. After delays due to a broken bridge and enemy ambushes, a U.S. armored rescue force arrived, led by Brigadier General J. Sladen Bradley, a tough fighter who rides into battle in his undershirt. But when Bradley got there, the Reds were in the town of Pohang, a burning ruin. Southeast of the town, ground crews, clerks and cooks...
Persistent Rats. One of the two remaining airfields in the beachhead was at Taegu-and Taegu itself was gravely threatened. On the central front, it seemed as hard to prevent the Reds from crossing the Naktong as to stop rats from boarding a moored ship. In some places, the sluggish green water was shallow enough to wade across. At night, free from Allied air attack, the North Koreans put tanks across on barges and hastily built log and stone causeways, whose top surfaces were a foot under water and hard to see from the air. Once, in full daylight, under...
...Communists surely knew it. They were massing on the southern and western fronts for two major drives: one straight at Pusan, the other to take Taegu, the communications hub of the northern half of the U.N. defense line. The Reds had already established several small bridgeheads east of the Naktong River near Taegu, and the city itself was under enemy artillery fire...
...east bank of the Naktong River, escaped a two-pronged Red drive from the west and north. While the G.I.s of the 1st Cavalry dug in, the Communists made a series of bloody, small-scale thrusts across the river. Their goal : the South Korean provisional capital of Taegu, only seven miles from the Naktong...