Word: uijongbu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first powerful northward thrust of the U.N. forces last week was a tank battalion-45 big Pattons-dispatched toward Uijongbu, eleven miles north of allied-held Seoul. Its stated task: to "seek out and destroy the enemy." Its purpose was, at least in part, to deny the town, almost leveled after ten months of seesaw war, to the Reds as an assembly point and staging base...
Lieut. Colonel Wilson Hawkins of Pascagoula, Miss., commanded the battalion from a grasshopper observation plane skimming overhead. The Pattons, each with a snarling tiger painted on the front, rumbled north out of a dry riverbed. Just short of Uijongbu, the column ran into trouble. Trying to bypass a tank trap, one Patton bogged down in a marshy field. Two more got stuck trying to pull it out. A fourth hit a mine; there was a deafening blast, a big puff of smoke and a cry over the radio: "Man wounded...
...west, where the enemy had some 30 or 40 divisions assembled for an all-out onslaught on Seoul. The U.N. forces broke contact and retreated rapidly, forcing the Chinese to advance over a no man's land that was kept under merciless allied artillery fire. After Munsan and Uijongbu had been abandoned to the Reds, the Reds reached the Han, between Seoul and the sea, and started a drive (the southern prong of a three-pronged attack) on the capital. Allied guns fired on them from the city's streets, and warships standing...
...massive drive across the Imjin River, near Uijongbu, the Chinese managed to isolate the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment.* For three days, their comrades tried in vain to relieve the Gloucesters. With most of their ammunition gone, the Gloucesters' commanding officer ordered his men to break out any way they could. Maurice ("Mike") Harvey, a slim, spectacled young captain, was one of the few who made...
R.O.K. units had been across the parallel, on the east coast, since March 27. Last week a U.S. column crossed north of Uijongbu. Soon the front north of the parallel had broadened to ten miles, then to 40 miles, and by week's end troops of seven nations-U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, Siam, Greece, South Korea-were in North Korea almost everywhere along the 110-mile front. Enemy resistance faded in the west but stiffened in the center, in front of the Communists' "iron triangle" (Hwachon-Chorwon-Yonchon), where the main body of their forces was believed...