Word: wonju
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This time the play did not click. U.N. troops gave up unimportant sectors, but held where they had to, as at Chipyong. Then General Ridgway shifted his strength eastward from Seoul. The U.N. line snapped back. Armored counterattacks relieved Chipyong, smashed north from Wonju. North of Ichon, U.N. troops bashed in the west flank of the Red drive...
...week's end, the Communists had taken casualties estimated at 33,000. South of Seoul, Puerto Rican G.I.s literally annihilated a Communist regiment; after a round-the-clock shelling north of Ichon, U.S. artillerymen reported 1,100 Chinese Reds dead in their foxholes. At Wonju and Chechon the hills were littered with enemy dead and abandoned weapons. U.N. planes dropped leaflets over the Communist lines; on them was printed a terse "Count your...
...Kunu last December, Colonel Paul Freeman, 43, silver-haired commander of the 23rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, covered the Eighth Army's retreat. At Wonju in January, the 23rd hung on. At Chipyong last week, Freeman and his men held down the hot corner again. With them was a tough French battalion commanded by Lieut. Colonel Ralph Monclar, a Foreign Legion veteran who had given up his general's rank to take his men to Korea...
...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...
Trappers Trapped. Three North Korean divisions - the 2nd, 9th and 31st -had moved around the right flank of the Wonju salient and were trying desperately last week to encircle the 2nd Division. Yongwol, a tungsten-mining town on the headwaters of the Han, changed hands even oftener than Wonju, and was razed by allied planes dropping napalm. R.O.K. units reported themselves "locked in combat" with the North Koreans, and 10,000 U.S. troops rushed to the scene. Finally, instead of trapping the Americans, the North Koreans were trapped themselves. Allied infantry, tanks, artillery and planes began chopping them down...