Word: taejon
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...other combustibles around the outside of the crowded Suchon jail, drenched everything with gasoline and lighted the fire, in a case of wanton savagery reminiscent of the Nazis' rape of Oradour-sur-Glane. Estimated deaths by fire: 280, mostly ROK civilian officials and landowners, if After capturing Taejon in the summer of 1950, the North Korean Home Affairs Department jammed the city prison with suspected anti-Communists-soldiers, officials, business and professional men. Beginning Sept. 23, 1950, several groups, numbering from 100 to 200 each, were taken from the cells each night. The prisoners, hands tied behind their backs...
...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...
Under Lee's imaginative command, the San Sonnim wrecked thousands of South Korean trucks and trains. When the Communist army rolled south in 1950, he emerged from the hills and was made Red commissar of South Chungchong province (around Taejon). He ordered mass executions of captured South Koreans...
...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...