Word: taegu
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...rail town. South Korean commandos raided the beach above Pohang. Then South Korean marines struck at Kunsan on the peninsula's west coast. But that, too, was a feint. The enemy did not suspect that the place would be Inchon, the port of Seoul, 150 miles northwest of Taegu. But Inchon it was, in spite of a formidable high tide* and a treacherous, silt-filled channel...
...week's end, the first British soldier to die in Korea was buried beside several hundred U.S. and South Korean dead in a cemetery on the outskirts of Taegu. Over the cemetery flew the blue and white flag of the United Nations...
Songs by Sinatra. TIME Correspondent James Bell made four trips along the Taegu-Kyongju road. He cabled: "When the enemy struck his sledgehammer blows in the northeast, both the fighting and the resultant confusion were like the return of a horrible nightmare. It was like nothing that has happened since the opening days...
...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...
...North of Taegu, the stretch of road called the "Bowling Alley," made famous by the brilliant defense of Colonel John Michaelis' 27th Regiment, was lost to the North Koreans-again-the Communists had pushed through a wide gap between U.S. and South Korean outfits. Near by, on a 900-ft. ridge, were the walled ruins of an ancient temple, called the "Walled City." In August the South Koreans had taken the Walled City; last week they -lost...