Word: taejon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rushed to Korea after the Reds launched their invasion, Dean led his division in hard-fought delaying actions from the Han River to Taejon...
...Stragglers. Days later, Taejon's beaten defenders were still straggling through to the new U.S. lines south of the city. More were doubtless lost but still alive in the surrounding hills. One sergeant had wandered for 33 miles through the hills in his bare feet. An Arkansas lieutenant showed up clad only in his shorts. But many of Taejon's defenders did not make it at all. Among the missing: TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder (see PRESS...
...West of Taejon, the Reds kept right on rolling. This week they launched a heavy attack on the unprotected far left flank of the U.S.-South Korean line, rolled unopposed down the west coast almost to the tip of the Korean peninsula. The Reds who took Taejon did not stay there long. They drove 20 miles to the southeast...
...days, that was the last word from Bill Dean. Then an aide reported that Dean had apparently managed to get out of Taejon, after all. He had last seen him in the mountains outside the burning city as the general went to look for more stragglers. "You can wait for me," he told his companions. But at week's end they were still waiting in vain...
...tanks broke into Taejon last week, Dean was up at the front, worked with his bazooka squads. Said a corporal: "The general took a couple of men downtown and went after two tanks. I saw him passing ammunition to the men and directing fire. He was doing a damn good job, too." As more & more Reds poured into the city, Dean told the men around him: "I want all of you boys to get out." Dean himself stayed. One correspondent reported seeing him last in the streets of Taejon, saying with a grin: "I just got me a Red tank...