Word: taejon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Admiral Daniel signed six copies of the agreement-two each in English, Chinese, Korean-with six different fountain pens, gave the pens to Panmunjom oldtimers. † A Communist correspondent at Panmunjom said that Major General William F. Dean, missing hero of Taejon, would not be returned in the first exchange, because he is in excellent health...
...Korea from his base at Hong Kong when the war broke out. He started by covering naval operations, and wrote Last Train from Vladivostok, the memorable story of a landing party which mined a railroad tunnel (TIME, July 24, 1950). The next week Fielder joined the land forces at Taejon and was killed in action. Since then four of TIME'S correspondents have been injured in Korea. The risks of covering a war come high...
When the 24th U.S. Division was beleaguered at Taejon in the first desperate month of the Korean war, TiME-LIFE Correspondent Wilson Fielder, 33, went in to cover the fight. The son of Baptist missionaries in China, Fielder was a veteran of the Marine Corps and of Texas and West Coast newspapering before he joined TIME. He had gone up to Korea from Hong Kong to be a combat correspondent (TIME, July 31, 1950). When Taejon fell to the Communists, Fielder left the burning ruins in the back seat of a jeep, seated next to a G.I. The jeep...
Last week in Tokyo, the Army announced that a body found in a ditch near Taejon ten months ago had been identified as Wilson Fielder's. He was the fifth TIME-LIFE war correspondent killed since the beginning of World War II and one of 14 U.N. correspondents killed covering the Korean...
...Sound of Water. When he got back from the north part of Taejon, Dean found himself cut off. He also found some men taking shelter from Red fire under a truck. They wanted to surrender, but Dean persuaded them to make a break for it. All could walk except one man. Exhausted and thirsty, Dean and another man took turns carrying him. When Dean heard the sound of running water by the road, he tried to find it, fell down a steep bank, hurt his shoulder, lost consciousness. When he woke up, he was alone...