Word: uijongbu
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...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...
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...
...Eighth Army moved warily northward. Two U.S. armored columns raided across the parallel on the western flank of the peninsula. One rolled up the main road north of Uijongbu toward Kumhwa; air spotters, directing artillery, helped it get back again before a Red ambush could be sprung. The second column, thrusting north of the Chongpyong Reservoir, ran into an enemy ambush of grenade and machine-gun fire, but managed to fight its way out to U.N. lines below the parallel. Along the central front above Chunchon, the enemy counterattacked; the main blow in his anticipated offensive seemed likely to come...
...offensive took abandoned Chunchon, last important crossroads town on the central front below the 38th parallel. Next day, on the front above Seoul, Uijongbu fell, also without a fight. The enemy seemed to have only one considerable force left in South Korea-perhaps 60,000 strong-guarding the two highways on the west side of the peninsula leading to Pyongyang...
...enemy," reiterated General Ridgway, who followed the paratroopers in a light plane. But Bowen's men found their quarry had slipped out of the trap. Instead of 60,000 Communists, they found less than 20,000. A few hours after the drop, U.N. tank-led task columns from Uijongbu linked up with the chutists. The enemy was still withdrawing; north of the 38th parallel he was either digging in for a stand or marshaling fresh forces for another attack...