Word: wonju
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...torch. Next, they abandoned Osan (where the first U.S. units in Korea began their delaying action last summer). The road from there to Taejon, scene of last summer's most tragic battle, was clogged with refugees. And 50 miles to the east, a flanking threat was developing at Wonju, an important rail and road center which lies in rugged uplands like those around the Changjin reservoir in northeast Korea...
...Difficult Art. While Seoul was falling, the enemy had pushed down the central mountains toward Wonju. Despite MacArthur's statement that vast numbers of Chinese were in the area, the local U.S. commander found himself confronted by only four "well-equipped and well-fed" North Korean divisions, but they were quite enough to give him trouble. Wonju was defended by the U.S. 2nd Division (which had taken a terrible beating in the Chinese November offensive), plus French, Dutch and South Korean units. They were supplied by airdrop from C-119s ("Flying Boxcars") and smaller transports which landed...
Little by little the picture was enlarged. At Wonju 1,000 to 2,000 had been killed, including five U.S. officers, at Suchon 280, at Mokpo 500, at Yangpyong 700, at Chongju 2,400, at Yosu...
...spite of continued B-29 bombing north of the 38th parallel and effective raids on the Han River crossings, the enemy seemed to be keeping his supply lines in fair order. And MacArthur's communiques constantly mentioned the grave danger of envelopment by Communists from the Wonju-Chungju area, of southward thrusts from Communist beachheads at Utchin and other points on the east coast. To exorcise these specters it would be necessary to string across the peninsula four to six Allied divisions-which last week would be a long time coming...