Word: yalu
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...Luftwaffe in 1942, was now, at 34, a colonel and commander of the Air Force's 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing. Nearly 40,000 ft. up, Baker and his followers ran into a flight of eight MIG-15s. Two of the MIGs turned tail and headed for the Yalu. Taking out after one of them, Baker edged close, fired one short burst. The shots "just sprayed the air because I was caught in his jetwash." From 1,200 ft. away, Baker fired another burst. It hit, and the MIG started smoking...
When the peace talks began in Kaesong nearly two years ago, Rhee denounced them as another Communist trick, and added, blusteringly, that if the U.N. were to sign a truce, the South Korean army would advance to the Yalu itself. Rhee's truculence is echoed by many Koreans, and for understandable reasons: without the power resources, the fertilizer factories and the iron mines of North Korea, the republic is doomed to economic mendicancy. When President Eisenhower visited Korea last December, Syngman Rhee insisted that the condition of any settlement must be unification of Korea...
...General MacArthur, or the political strategists, followed this plan in the late autumn of 1950, the tragic retreat from the Yalu . . . and three long, cold winters on the battle line might have been avoided. Instead, our actions ignored the military capabilities of the Chinese Communists, and were based upon a forlorn hope and false estimate of the enemy's intentions...
Preaching the word in North Korea, Pang Wha II, Presbyterian minister, felt the Communist wrath for the first time in 1945. World War II was barely ended when the Reds drove him from his little parish in Sinuiji at the Yalu. He moved southwest of Pusan. There, in 1948, a gang of South Korean Communists went after him. Hiding in his house, he listened helplessly as the rioters beat his wife for refusing to tell where he was. They beat her until her eyes grew blank, until she could remember nothing but would thenceforth sit all the day staring...
...village to marry a childhood sweetheart. Charlie Company had sent the hat round and collected $250 for Joe, and issued him a mock-formal order: "Have a good time." A Katusa (Korean attached to U.S. troops) and thereby not eligible for rotation, he had been up to the Yalu and back again with the Wolfhounds, fighting, said one G.I., "with the guts of a wild Indian." He had volunteered for every patrol Charlie Company ever...