Word: yalu
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Last Warning. Then the Chinese surged across the Yalu. They forced a bruising defeat on MacArthur's ill-deployed forces, shaking the J.C.S.'s confidence in his military judgment. MacArthur was for bold and forceful retaliation. But the State Department laid down the line: U.S. policy would be to fight China only in Korea. MacArthur, unable to accept the logic of fighting a war he could not win, launched a fresh barrage of dissent. He loosed a flood of announcements, interviews, and answers to magazine queries, complaining of the enemy's "privileged sanctuary," calling such limitations...
...indication of change. MacArthur had been told that if the Chinese should throw a large air force into battle, he was authorized to bomb their bases in Manchuria. In short, it was for the Chinese to decide whether to give MacArthur a new plan of battle. Meanwhile, behind the Yalu, the Reds concentrated troops and aircraft, held the initiative awarded to them by the statesmen...
...last week 34 U.S. B-29s lumbered up "MIG Alley" to drop 260 tons of bombs on bridges across the lower Yalu. The enemy's fast MIG-15s, squatting on their nests behind the Manchurian border, howled up to attack, 40 strong, in spite of 80 U.S. jets (50 F-84 Thunderjets and 30 F-86 Sabres) escorting the bombers...
...Thunderjets undertook to drive the attackers off (while the Sabres stayed close to the bombers) and did it quickly. After two MIGs had been hit, the rest streaked for safety across the Yalu; the U.S. pilots broke off the pursuit at the river. In this biggest dogfight of the war, no U.S. plane was scratched...
Night-flying aircraft crews scouting North Korea's roads last week spotted one of the heaviest enemy movements toward the front since the Chinese Communist crossing of the Yalu. More than 2,000 vehicles were headed through the darkness for the Red lines above the 38th parallel. Night after night, and even by day, the ominous traffic to the front continued. U.N. air strikes attacked it but could...