Word: taegu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thousands of dwellings had been destroyed in Seoul, Taegu, Taejon and in numberless villages. Korea's industry had been shattered. Steel and aluminum plants had been crippled or destroyed. At Hungnam, the largest fertilizer plant in Korea had been heavily damaged. Inchon's locomotive works and railway repair shop lay in ruins. Ninety per cent of South Korea's railway bridges and the majority of her electric substations had been smashed...
...Perimeter. The North Koreans had missed another big chance. They were still maintaining heavy pressure on the main axis of their advance-Taejon-Kumchon-Taegu-trying to turn the U.S. retreat into a rout. In this they failed. If, instead, they had diverted a heavier force to the south-coast drive-four divisions, for example, they would almost certainly have smashed through the thin U.S. crust and seized the vital port...
...this time, the Allies, having lost Kumchon, were standing on a fairly well-defined perimeter-with flanks on the south and east coasts-which was to grow smaller before it grew bigger. The south flank rested just west of Masan, the center of the line shielded Taegu, the vital "turntable," and on the east coast the line touched the sea north of Pohang. To defend his perimeter, Walker had, or soon would have, elements of five U.S. divisions-the 24th, 25th and 2nd Infantry, the 1st Cavalry, the 1st Marine...
...bloody battles, the U.S. beat back a massive enemy thrust at Taegu and shrank or wiped out the Red bridgeheads across the Naktong River. On the east coast, the South Koreans lost Pohang, regained it after U.S. reinforcements sped to help them...
...power of this offensive was amazing. Once more the enemy won bridgeheads across the Naktong, bigger than ever. Once more Taegu was threatened, not only frontally but by envelopment from the east. The northern front, from Taegu to the Japan Sea, sagged menacingly. On the east coast the South Koreans were thrown into chaotic disorder...