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Appeal. It was the kind of solution that had a strong appeal to a large number of U.N. members, among them some nations that have long been stout U.S. allies. They stood in dread of how Soviet Russia would react if & when Douglas MacArthur drove to the Yalu River, finally stood arrayed 80 miles west of Vladivostok and 185 miles east of Port Arthur...
...first day of the new Allied drive for the Yalu, Douglas MacArthur issued a confident communiqué: "The United Nations massive compression envelopment in North Korea against the new Red armies operating there is now approaching its decisive effort ... If successful, this should for all practical purposes end the war, restore peace and unity to Korea, enable the prompt withdrawal of United Nations military forces, and permit the complete assumption by Korea of full sovereignty and international equality. It is that for which we fight...
...some fronts the no man's land between the armies was growing wider in spite of the slow, tentative advance by U.N. forces. Beyond Kapsan the U.S. troops pushed through Red lines to the Yalu River, effectively dividing enemy forces. A baffled Pentagon spokesman, asked by newsmen to explain Chinese strategy in Korea, described it as a "holding operation...
Advance elements of the U.S. 7th Division could see the cold, hazy-blue mountains of Manchuria. This week, after capturing the crossroads town of Kapsan, the 7th pushed a tank-led spearhead all the way to the border. The G.I.s reached the south bank of the Yalu near Hyesanjin, a major Communist crossing point on the river's wide southerly bend...
...only way U.S. B-29s could bomb the Yalu River bridges without violating the border was by making long bomb runs just inside and parallel to the line running down the center of the 2,500-ft.-wide Yalu. While making such a ten-minute bomb run on Sinuiju, 24 U.S. Superforts at 25,000 ft. were jumped by 16 Russian-made jet fighters-MIG-iss. Attacking in pairs, the Red jets, traveling at better than 600 m.p.h., began their dives high on the Manchurian side of the border, swept across the Yalu just long enough to shoot...