Word: taejon
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...heard via Armed Forces Radio that [TIME Correspondent] Wilson Fielder was missing in action at Taejon. He had been with us for a week, and in that short time we had all grown to know him and like him well...
...Church replaced Major General William F. Dean, reported missing in action during the battle for Taejon...
...night in Taejon, Jack Percival, a peppery, tough Australian reporter, bedded down among his fellow reporters on the floor of an old house. Shortly after, he dashed out into the living room. "There's a woman in there," he gasped. "There was one fellow kept rolling over in his sleep next to me. I gave him a good push and I found out it wasn...
...command post in Korea, an infantry captain returning from fallen Taejon ran into a major who was on his way back to Japan. The infantry officer asked the major to take a message to his wife in Tokyo, was told: "I'll do better than that. Talk into this recorder and I'll take your voice back to your wife." The captain's message, punctuated by the noises of the command post, was broadcast last week by the Columbia Broadcasting System. This is what he said...
...influential German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung observed: "We have learned at Seoul and Taejon that there are too few tanks and guns, and the steel for them is now to be supplied by the Germans . . . People beyond our borders are more and more coming to understand how little the Western world can afford the division into victors and vanquished...