Word: taejon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...days, that was the last word from Bill Dean. Then an aide reported that Dean had apparently managed to get out of Taejon, after all. He had last seen him in the mountains outside the burning city as the general went to look for more stragglers. "You can wait for me," he told his companions. But at week's end they were still waiting in vain...
...first U.S. amphibious invasion force of the Korean war went ashore last week at the east coast port of Pohang, moved out swiftly to reinforce U.S. positions south of Taejon and (more importantly) to anchor the right flank of the U.S.-South Korean line. The men who landed at Pohang were members of the famed 1st Cavalry Division, the third U.S. division to be sent into battle in Korea. They were commanded by Major General Hobart R. Gay, a veteran armored force officer who served as chief of staff to General George S. Pattern's Third Army in World...
...24th captured Yechon, an important rail town on the U.S. right flank, 6 miles northeast of Taejon. Yechon fell after a 16-hour battle that started when the Negro G.I.s moved out under a barrage of mortar and artillery fire in the afternoon. They advanced steadily throughout the night, finally entered the burning town at dawn next...
...flying weather, Superforts raided Seoul's railroad marshaling yards, interrupting traffic from the north to the southern battlefront, and blasted industrial targets near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. From a secret U.S. airbase built in four days, F80 Shooting Star jets attacked tanks and transports around Taejon; the highway northeast of Taejon was lined with burning vehicles. Other U.S. planes attacked Communist engineers who were trying to repair destroyed bridges across the Kum River...
Toward week's end, the Red air force cautiously reappeared. Over Taejon, four patrolling U.S. F-80s met four Yak fighters, shot down three; other Yaks tried to intercept U.S. B-29s on their mission to Seoul, giving them, in the words of a U.S. briefing officer, "a pretty good scrap." Airfields previously deserted were again abustle with Red aircraft...