Word: taegu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Korean invasion last summer found Major Hess in Japan as an information and education official. The pathetic South Korean air force, which had no combat planes, was given ten F51 Mustangs, but could not fly them properly. Dean Hess was rushed to Taegu to become "adviser" to the South Korean flyers. Actually he became their trainer, beloved leader, and most dogged and enthusiastic fighter. They called him "Mister United States...
...either be a general or a dead colonel," cracked G.I.s last summer about the hottest regimental commander among U.N. forces in Korea. At Taegu's bloody "bowling alley," John Hersey Michaelis (rhymes with regale us), better known as "Mike," and his redoubtable 27th Infantry (Wolfhound) Regiment, now better known as "The Fire Brigade," fought bravely and brilliantly to help hold the Pusan perimeter. Sinewy Mike Michaelis won a battlefield promotion to full colonel, and the D.S.C. for "extraordinary heroism" under fire...
...guerrilla-style fighting is the 1st Marine Division (by last week well recovered from the ordeal of its fighting retreat to the sea in December). Recently, the marines have been pitted against the North Korean 10th Division, which had reached the Andong area, only 50 miles north of Taegu...
...prisoners said that the loth had been ordered to seize Taegu after blocking the Andong-Taegu rail & road line. They never came near that ambitious goal...
About three weeks after Popko had moved to the front, the big attack came -part of the enemy's hard-driving try to take Taegu. Popko's squad was holding the left side of Hill 303.* The enemy came up in three banzai-screaming waves. "Once I was going to get out of the hole and throw my rifle away and go over the hill. You can't explain how it is. You just think you can't stand it any more. But the guy in the next hole to me started talking sense into...