Word: taejon
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...tough an assignment as any they 'have been called upon to cover. There have been six casualties among the press corps to date-the sixth being TIME'S Wilson Fielder. As we go to press, he is listed as missing in action after the evacuation of Taejon (see Press...
...morning of the third day, Communist tanks broke through the city's northern defenses. Inside Taejon, North Korean guerrillas who had infiltrated during the night opened fire with rifles, light machine guns and mortars. Other Red assault troops outside the city began driving in the defenders' flanks...
...operation was endangered last week by a Red drive down Korea's western coast which captured Kwangju and pushed on towards Sunchon. This indicated that the Reds' main drive may not follow the U.S. retreat along the railroad into the very rough, defensible country southeast of Taejon...
...Taejon, a ramshackle, war-crowded city (normal pop. 37,000), lies amid the hills and paddy fields of southwestern Korea...
Through it runs a double-tracked trunk-line railroad, which twists 125 miles through the mountains to Pusan, the U.S. buildup port in the southeast. Last week the North Korean Reds arrived at the city's outskirts. U.S. troops of the 24th Division were supposed to hold Taejon two days ; they held it for three...