Word: yongsan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yongsan, Korea, handsome Master Sergeant Travis Watkins, 29, of Gladewater, Texas, took command of 30 infantrymen who had been cut off from their regiment, led them to a defensive position where they held out for four days under unremitting Communist attack. When ammunition ran low on Sept. 2, Watkins shot five North Koreans outside his perimeter, calmly left shelter to get their weapons and ammunition. Although wounded himself, he fired on six other Reds who threatened to enfilade the American position. His back was broken by enemy machine-gun fire, but he continued to fire until all six were killed...
Other casualties among correspondents in Korea last week were Philip Potter of the Baltimore Sun and Jean de Premonville of Agence France-Presse, who were wounded slightly when they ran into a guerrilla ambush during a night drive from Yongsan to Pusan. Three other correspondents who were with them, including the New York Herald- Tribune's Homer Bigart, escaped injury...
...crack 1st, 2nd and 3rd Divisions (now northwest of Taegu). Next are troops who had served before with the Chinese Communist armies. They are well-trained and possibly the most hardened troops of the lot. They comprise the bulk of the 4th (now in the southwest near Yongsan), 5th (at Pohang) and 6th (fighting fiercely near Haman) Divisions. The third class of North Korean troops are hastily conscripted reserves, both North and South Koreans...