Word: taegu
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...32nd Infantry Division, he was wounded in battle, contracted malaria, won the Bronze Star. After the war, he went back to the reservation at Winnebago, Neb., but soon re-enlisted as a Regular Army man. Last September, serving as a rifleman with the ist Cavalry Division above Taegu in Korea, Sergeant John Rice, 37, was killed in action...
...Three-Man Team. The Army let him set up a three-man team in Taegu. Operating under primitive conditions, with the aid of one enlisted man instead of the two trained surgeons civilian doctors are used to, his surgeons performed 108 operations in the first three weeks of the spring offensive...
Meirowsky shuttled between Japan and Taegu, performing operations at both bases. During lulls, he dashed off by jeep or helicopter to the front to tell medics how to handle brain cases, teaching them to go easy on morphine, so that any complications could be spotted easily. He devised a system of sandwiching paraplegics between two padded litters so that their position could be safely changed by a single quick flip, thus avoiding blood poisoning from bed sores...
Through correspondence with his family who are in Korea, Rim learned of his wife and child's 100 mile five-day flight from Seoul to Taegu on foot...
...Japan, tried to bolster crumbling South Korean resistance and to stem the Red onslaught. At Taejon came the first big decision: General MacArthur decided to force the enemy to deploy and he succeeded. In some of the heaviest battles of the whole campaign, at the famed "Bowling Alley" outside Taegu, the Reds were stopped cold. With that victory, the U.N. forces bought time for a buildup behind the hastily thrown-up defense perimeter around Pusan...