Word: taejon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cable to Syngman Rhee, asking clemency for the two South Koreans under indictment for betraying him to the Communists, and began to answer a three-foot stack of mail-most of it from parents of soldiers still listed as missing in action. For the hero of Taejon, it was the end of a long and harrowing journey...
...suit, blue cap, thick-soled sneakers, an orange shirt, a red tie-he was still cheerful and erect, still very much a soldier. He was Major General William F. Dean, 54, commander of the first U.S. forces in the Korean war (elements of the 24th Infantry Division), hero of Taejon, highest ranking U.N. officer taken prisoner by the Communists, first Medal of Honor winner of the Korean...
...first Americans I've seen since July 1950," said General Dean. "I'm sure you look a lot better to me than 1 do to you." Then he told his story: how he and a small group of officers and G.I.s fought their way out of burning Taejon in that first grim month of the war; how he became separated from his party when he went to the help of a wounded man; how he lost touch with his aide; how he fell down a cliff while looking for water. For 35 days he wandered, dazed and hungry...
Thirst & Beatings. As war correspondent for the London Observer, Author Deane had flown from Athens "to cover this little war." He hitchhiked his way to Taejon in time to see Major General William Dean's green 24th Division chopped to pieces by 15 divisions of North Korean Communists. On his very first day, he helped with the wounded. He saw the army "doctors operate ceaselessly, their hands bare, blood spattered down their fatigues. No rubber gloves, no white smocks here. Stitch this, clip that, sponge, stitch, clip, saw-faster, faster, faster, there are more waiting." At the front...
Major General William F. Dean, former 24th Infantry Division commander, who got the Medal of Honor in absentia after his capture outside Taejon in 1950, will get some news from Washington to brighten his grey life in prison camp: President Eisenhower nominated Dean (a Regular Army brigadier general with a temporary two-star rank) for permanent major general...