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Barrage in Chinese. Throughout Korea U.N. troops had abandoned the easy optimism of previous weeks. U.N. pilots who had long had the air almost to themselves were meeting increasing numbers of Yak fighters. Last week they had their first brushes with enemy jets coming from north of the Yalu-Soviet MIG-15s with swept-back wings and a speed of 600 miles an hour. Ground troops faced enemy units heavily equipped with tanks, automatic weapons, 76-mm. howitzers and multiple rocket launchers like the Russian "Katushas" of World War II. The men who handled the weapons displayed skill and high...
...bitter winter. If the Chinese sent more reinforcements piecemeal into North Korea, the campaign would be even longer. If they sent large forces, a full-scale war between China and the U.N. army might result. If the estimated 300,000 Chinese troops now in Manchuria crossed the Yalu into Korea, outnumbered U.N. forces might well be driven back below the 38th parallel...
World War III? Partial, unadmitted intervention would have some advantages in Chinese eyes. It might serve to protect the great Yalu River power dams (see map) from which Manchuria draws electric power for its factories. It might save face for the Communists in Asia, might prevent the U.N. from creating a stable, anti-Communist nation on China's borders. It would surely profit the U.S.S.R. which would be delighted to see U.S. energies drained by a long Asian...
...Korea. So far the U.N. had treated the belligerent Peking regime with anxious forbearance, and a turn-the-other-cheek mildness. But if Communist troops and aircraft continued to cross the border, sooner or later there would be no choice for the U.N. command except to blow up the Yalu River dams and bridges, to bomb airfields and troop concentrations in Manchuria...
...Unsan, the wheeling Red offensive carried to within 15 miles of Sinanju, a vital U.N. transportation and supply center, and threatened both the rear and right flank of the U.S. 24th Infantry Division. The 24th, which had pushed one spearhead to within 14 miles of the mouth of the Yalu River, promptly pulled back nearly 50 miles to the west coast town of Chongju...