Word: taejon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even if the thin line of U.S. youngsters on the south bank of the Kum had miraculously prevented a single Communist from crossing, they would have had to pull out of the salient around Taejon anyway. The Communist drive on their right flank (see below) threatened to cut the rail line, perhaps encircle and destroy the forces on the U.S.'s first line of defense. After delaying the enemy as much as they could, their main business was to get out alive and intact...
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...bloody, muddy Korea, Douglas MacArthur and his field commander, Major General William F. Dean, had to hold a line somewhere between the battle zone and the southern supply port of Pusan. It seemed vital to hold the Sochon-Taejon-Taegu-Pusan railroad (see map)-double-tracked from Pusan to Taejon, the U.S. field headquarters-not only to feed the U.S. build-up in men and weapons but for lateral mobility behind the defense line. In the western sector, focus of last week's bloodiest fighting, Taejon and the rail line had a fine natural defense in front of them...
...Taejon and the rail line were lost, the enemy had a chance to squeeze the defenders into a perimeter around the port of Pusan. But the picture was not totally dark. The U.S. forces had seized unqualified command of the air, would hold it unless Russia directly intervened. The South Korean forces, chewed up and demoralized by the enemy's first onslaught, were regrouping behind the U.S. screen. East of the Osan-Chonan sector, where they had only Red infantry to fight against, the South Koreans were beginning to achieve some success. The arrival at week...
Increasing Commitments. When Red tanks were spotted reconnoitering near Suwon, General Church ordered his mission of some 250 men to Taejon, 73 miles still farther south. In a pouring rain, traveling in trucks, jeeps, weapons carriers, they made the weary trip over roads like quagmires. The new hope was to hold at the Kum River north of Taejon...