Word: taejon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean was last heard from on the northern outskirts of Taejon. A survivor heard him say: "I just got me a Red tank." After the city fell, Dean's helmet liner was found in a rice paddy...
...Item 3 (supervision of armistice). Soon two subcommittees were grinding away under two tents at Panmunjom. This week, there rose one note of hope: the Reds turned over a list of U.N. prisoners, reportedly including Maj. Gen. William F. Dean of the 24th Division, missing since the fighting around Taejon in July...
Phase One began when the North Korean army crossed the 38th parallel and bowled down the center of the peninsula through Seoul toward Taejon. A handful of green troops of the U.S. Eighth Army were rushed into Korea from Japan, tried to bolster crumbling South Korean resistance and to stem the Red onslaught. At Taejon came the first big decision: General MacArthur decided to force the enemy to deploy and he succeeded. In some of the heaviest battles of the whole campaign, at the famed "Bowling Alley" outside Taegu, the Reds were stopped cold. With that victory, the U.N. forces...
...week long, the whereabouts of the bulk of the U.S. Eighth Army, along the Seoul-Taejon axis, was obscured by censorship. For all that news readers in the U.S. knew to the contrary, the Eighth might have been retreating pell- mell toward Taejon. This week news of an allied counterattack in the Osan sector made it clear that the Army was no longer in retreat...
...Osan, for what Eighth Army spokesmen said was a huge buildup of strength. Also, they seemed to be shifting strength laterally to the east, either to reinforce the hard-pressed North Koreans in the central mountains, or because they were unwilling to make a frontal assault along the Seoul-Taejon road. Since allied rear-guards had lost contact with the Chinese, they were ordered to turn around, push north until they encountered the enemy...