Word: taegu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news as they changed hands-Arras, Amiens, Cambrai, Soissons. Korea was producing another crop of such towns, won and lost in a matter of weeks or days instead of years. Pohang, Angang, Yong-chon, Hyonpung and Changnyong had changed hands at least three times. And such towns as Taegu, the northwestern "turntable," and Masan, the south coast anchor, were in the news day after day, because they were under almost constant threat...
This week, two tank-led enemy columns sliced through South Korean defenses in the northeast, threatened to outflank both Taegu and Pohang. But in the southwest, counterattacking G.I.s of the 25th Division had driven back to their old positions west of Haman and Masan. The big push was checked...
...themselves range in age from 16 to 30 or slightly over. They are divided into three distinct classes. The first includes regular army troops who have been training under Russian direction since 1946. These make up the bulk of the crack 1st, 2nd and 3rd Divisions (now northwest of Taegu). Next are troops who had served before with the Chinese Communist armies. They are well-trained and possibly the most hardened troops of the lot. They comprise the bulk of the 4th (now in the southwest near Yongsan), 5th (at Pohang) and 6th (fighting fiercely near Haman) Divisions. The third...
...trying to cut the road to Taegu," said grey-haired Mike Michaelis as he sat, bone-tired, against the wall of his culvert command post as automatic weapon fire zinged and buzzed like angry bees around him. "He's trying to scare me into withdrawing and leaving my equipment. Then he can come down the road with his armor. I'm just not going...
...sixth day, General Kim's forces stumbled northward to regroup. Mike Michaelis stretched out on the ground under a poplar tree outside his command post. He yawned. "Kim's mission was to knock me off this road and take Taegu," said Mike. "He failed. He's going to try another way, but we beat him here...