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...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...
When the hard-fighting 27th (Wolf hound) Infantry Regiment stopped a Communist tank drive on Taegu a month ago, the New York Herald Tribune's pert, fearless Correspondent Marguerite Higgins cabled an eyewitness story of the four-hour battle. Last week, in a letter to the Trib, the regiment's hard-bitten Colo nel J. H. ("Mike") Michaelis complained that she had left out something important. He supplied...