Word: yalu
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...narrow limits of the Korean peninsula has strained U.S. naval and strategic air power by giving it a task for which it was not designed. Last week the U.S.A.F.'s Major General Roger M. Ramey, operations, chief of the Air Force general staff, said: "It is the Yalu River which has forced upon [us] an air war that is predominantly tactical. Less than 3% of the entire Far East Air Forces' effort [was] required to paralyze North Korean industry by neutralizing 18 strategic targets...
...great question for the G.R.S. is when, if ever, it will be allowed to comb the sites of the late 1950 fighting between the present battlefront and the Yalu, where it believes hundreds of U.S. bodies lie. Up to this week the matter had not even been mentioned at Panmunjom...
...commanders were also worried by the condition of the more than 3,000 U.S. prisoners in Red stockades scattered from Pyongyang to the Yalu. By radio, Matt Ridgway dispatched a personal appeal to North Korea's Kim II Sung and Red China's Peng Teh-huai that they start permitting Red Cross inspection at once, as the U.N. has been doing all along. The U.N. subcommittee men at Panmunjom asked that sick and wounded prisoners be exchanged at once...
...other side of the peninsula, up north, the Chinese Reds had been doing some overwater work of their own. The U.S. Navy, after sitting on the details for four days, told how the Chinese had captured three small islands off the mouth of the Yalu. The islands had been occupied last spring by South Korean marines, and the enemy could guess that they were being used as radar and weather stations, and might become springboards for guerrilla activity against the mainland...
...enemy formation was believed to have been sent to cover a Communist attack on U.N.-held islands near the mouth of the Yalu. In any case, the lumbering, thin-skinned bombers were slaughtered like sheep. After the battle, eight TUs, three LAs and one red-nosed MIG had been downed; two of the Sabres suffered minor damage, but all returned safely to their base. It was the first time that Red bombers had been shot down in Korea...