Word: taejon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Rushed to Korea after the Reds launched their invasion, Dean led his division in hard-fought delaying actions from the Han River to Taejon...
Dead at the Throttle. At the burning Taejon railroad station, a locomotive engineer who had been tooting his whistle frantically throughout the early hours of the fighting finally decided to make a break for it; his train got through, but a hospital train that tried to re-enter the city later, to take out the wounded, was driven off. The engineer was shot dead at the throttle...
...Stragglers. Days later, Taejon's beaten defenders were still straggling through to the new U.S. lines south of the city. More were doubtless lost but still alive in the surrounding hills. One sergeant had wandered for 33 miles through the hills in his bare feet. An Arkansas lieutenant showed up clad only in his shorts. But many of Taejon's defenders did not make it at all. Among the missing: TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder (see PRESS...
...West of Taejon, the Reds kept right on rolling. This week they launched a heavy attack on the unprotected far left flank of the U.S.-South Korean line, rolled unopposed down the west coast almost to the tip of the Korean peninsula. The Reds who took Taejon did not stay there long. They drove 20 miles to the southeast...
...tanks broke into Taejon last week, Dean was up at the front, worked with his bazooka squads. Said a corporal: "The general took a couple of men downtown and went after two tanks. I saw him passing ammunition to the men and directing fire. He was doing a damn good job, too." As more & more Reds poured into the city, Dean told the men around him: "I want all of you boys to get out." Dean himself stayed. One correspondent reported seeing him last in the streets of Taejon, saying with a grin: "I just got me a Red tank...