Word: yongdung
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...Yongdung rail junction, outside Seoul, 20,000 refugees squatted in an area about 100 yards wide and half a mile long, waiting for a chance to clamber aboard freight trains. They strapped themselves to the sides of flatcars, clung to perilous footholds by slender strands of rope. On one engine, a woman wedged herself atop a steam valve to keep warm, not realizing that when the train started moving she would inevitably freeze and topple...
Yard by Yard. After the fall of Kimpo, the U.S. and South Korean attackers mounted a two-pronged assault on Seoul, one from the northwest along the north bank of the Han, the other from the southeast through the industrial suburb of Yongdung, south of the river. Before the north prong could get going, a battalion under Lieut. Colonel Robert Taplett-whose outfit had stormed Wolmi Island last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 25)-had to cross the Han. Taplett's men had brought along amtracs (amphibious tractors), but the first crossing was not easy...
...south prong-a regiment under famed Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller-fought a hand-to-hand battle in Yongdung, where the main Inchon-Seoul road joins the southbound road to Suwon. Scores of bayoneted Reds perished...
...Yongdung, but after five days Puller's men were still mopping...
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