Word: yongwol
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...steel mill at Inchon and the spinning works at Yongdungpo are heaps of blasted machinery. In Pusan, Korea's largest spinning mill is starved of electric power. The once-flourishing coal mines at Yongwol are silent relics. In North Korea, U.S. bombers have smashed a nitrogen plant at Hungnam, the oil refinery at Wonsan, marshaling yards at Sinuiju...
Trappers Trapped. Three North Korean divisions - the 2nd, 9th and 31st -had moved around the right flank of the Wonju salient and were trying desperately last week to encircle the 2nd Division. Yongwol, a tungsten-mining town on the headwaters of the Han, changed hands even oftener than Wonju, and was razed by allied planes dropping napalm. R.O.K. units reported themselves "locked in combat" with the North Koreans, and 10,000 U.S. troops rushed to the scene. Finally, instead of trapping the Americans, the North Koreans were trapped themselves. Allied infantry, tanks, artillery and planes began chopping them down...
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