Word: taejon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heard via Armed Forces Radio that [TIME Correspondent] Wilson Fielder was missing in action at Taejon. He had been with us for a week, and in that short time we had all grown to know him and like him well...
Hardly were the stand-or-die orders out of General Walker's mouth (see above) than the U.S. forces began to give more ground. Kochang fell, on the central front, and Kumchon, an important strongpoint on the Taejon-Taegu railroad, was threatened from the southeast. At Chinju on the south coast, after a heavy fight in which Communist dead littered the ground "like confetti," the defenders pulled back and two Red regiments rushed in. Chinju, 55 miles from Pusan, was the closest Communist approach to the all-important supply port...
...command post in Korea, an infantry captain returning from fallen Taejon ran into a major who was on his way back to Japan. The infantry officer asked the major to take a message to his wife in Tokyo, was told: "I'll do better than that. Talk into this recorder and I'll take your voice back to your wife." The captain's message, punctuated by the noises of the command post, was broadcast last week by the Columbia Broadcasting System. This is what he said...
...influential German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung observed: "We have learned at Seoul and Taejon that there are too few tanks and guns, and the steel for them is now to be supplied by the Germans . . . People beyond our borders are more and more coming to understand how little the Western world can afford the division into victors and vanquished...
...were other, conflicting versions of what happened; the Communist Pyongyang Radio, which had falsely claimed the capture of two other correspondents earlier in the fighting, reportedly announced that Correspondent Fielder had been taken prisoner. At week's end, as stragglers continued to make their way out of the Taejon pocket and back to U.S. lines, there was no final word of Wilson Fielder's fate: he was listed only as "missing in action." He was the sixth U.S. newsman to be listed as a battle casualty in the war in Korea...