Word: waegwan
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...positions that Gay's gallant troopers fought them off with bayonets, rifle butts, knives, even fists and feet. The Reds seemed to have no taste for this sort of combat and retreated across the Naktong with heavy casualties, but they came back to fight again near Waegwan (called "Wigwam," "Waukeegan," or "Podunk" by G.I.s), twelve miles northwest of Taegu. Twice the G.I.s were driven from the top of Hill 303 made infamous by the war's worst atrocity (see War Crimes), but they scrambled back up. As Gay's men dug in on top of Hill...
Last week, on the front near Waegwan, the U.N. commission suffered its first casualty. Its alternate member, Colonel Unni Nayar of India, and two British correspondents with him (see PRESS) were killed when the colonel's jeep ran over a land mine...