Word: wonju
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...date was Feb. 1, 1951 on Hill 333 near Wonju in Korea. He was a platoon sergeant in the I Company, 23rd Infantry, 2nd Division, fighting off a Chinese Communist "human sea" attack. "The lieutenant lasted about 20 minutes," said Sergeant Lee. Then Lee was in command. "I had been with the platoon a long time," he explained diffidently. "There wasn't anyone left to lead them." The platoon fired until their guns clicked empty. The Chinese surged over the crest, and Sergeant Lee's platoon reeled 50 yards back down the hill. The sergeant carried a wounded...
...broke through to the sea, carrying along most of their wounded. Meanwhile, the Eighth Army, badly shaken by what everyone called the "Chinese hordes," retired all the way back past the 38th parallel, past Seoul. Finally, along a line running across the peninsula from a little below Samchok and Wonju, the Eighth stood its ground. At this point it became clear that the Eighth Army would not be driven into the sea, which was Peking's boasted...
...marines found two wounded, half-frozen U.S. soldiers-a 19-year-old infantry corporal, and a 35-year-old pfc. in the artillery. They were the only survivors of a U.S. 155-mm. battery and its infantry guard, ambushed and annihilated three weeks ago. In an aid station at Wonju airstrip, the corporal and the pfc. told their stories...
Cautious Combat. Typical of the sporadic fighting was the action on Hill 166, about four miles south of Hoengsong. A characterless little hump extending from the Wonju-Hoengsong road into barren stony mountains whose crevices gleam with snow, Hill 166 is distinguished only by a thin ruff of slender trees along the western slope, a high-tension wire standard on its crest, and a cluster of high Korean grave mounds on its southern slope...
...commanders would have sympathized. Since the Korean war began, the U.N. forces' close and plentiful artillery support has helped as much as airpower to neutralize the vast manpower superiority of the Communists. Last week, day & night artillery barrages kept the Communists from overwhelming the defenders of Chipyong and Wonju...