Word: yalu
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...prestige and Syngman Rhee's boasts of marching to the Yalu, the east front setback was a severe blow. Just how seriously it affects U.N. defenses for an armistice is another matter, obscured in military censorship...
...River and the Gauntlet, by S. L. A. Marshall. An unforgettable story of the surprise and defeat of the U.S. Eighth Army on its 1950 march to the Yalu (TIME, June...
Last week for four successive days, the mauled Red squadrons stayed north of the Yalu, and the Sabres had the North Korean air to themselves. So did the Navy, Marine and Air Force fighter-bombers, which are doing the unglamorous work of ripping away at the enemy's supply, communications and troop centers...
...whole modern army on the move caught completely by surprise, its units scattered, its communications faulty, its foremost elements short of ammunition to fight off a primitive army that could move only at night and on foot. How it happened-in that one week, south of the Yalu-is superbly and terrifyingly described. It is inconceivable that it could happen in the future to any commander who has read The River and the Gauntlet...
Fifty MIG-15s bore down on a flight of U.N. fighter bombers near the Yalu; up streaked four U.S. F-86 Sabre jets to meet them. Flying the lead Sabre was Captain "Manuel Fernandez Jr., a 28-year-old Miamian on his 117th combat mission (already 17 missions over the standard 100; he wants to fly 150 in all). Fernandez got his sights on a MIG, started firing from 1,200 ft. away. Later he reported matter of factly: "Large pieces started falling off him, and fire broke out in his tailpipe section. He fell over on the left wing...