Word: yongdok
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...TIME, of all publications, succumbed to Korean logic in concocting the war map in its July 31st issue. You will note that it shows a railway leading from Pohang north along the coast through Yongdok. Thereby hangs a tale...
...enemy in his rear, while other South Koreans and a small armored U.S. force held him by the nose (as the late George Patton used to say) with a frontal attack. The U.S. Air Force moved its planes back to Pohang airfield. The Communists were pushed back toward Yongdok. Jubilant South Korean commanders called it a rout...
...maps as an ominous red circle, but U.S. officers dismissed it with: "Just a bunch of gooks scattered in the hills." Last week the irregulars suddenly increased in number, and they were joined by a large force (about 10,000) of North Korean regulars who slipped south from the Yongdok area through a gap in the South Korean lines...
...Shall Attack." In the center of the curving front, Yongdong was a mass of rubble, leveled by artillery from both armies. From Hwanggan to Yongdok on the east coast, MacArthur's headquarters estimated that 90,000 North Koreans had been poured in against the Americans and South Koreans. Major General Hobart R. Gay, dashing commander of the ist Cavalry, paraphrased World War I's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Said Gay: "Foch said that there comes a time in every battie when both commanders think they are losing. Then the one who attacks, wins. I shall attack."* General...
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