Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...7th Division's 17th Regiment, which last month had stood briefly on the Yalu (it was the only U.S. unit to reach that fateful river), had also made its way down from the mountains to Hamhung. Altogether some 60,000 men of X Corps, including two R.O.K. divisions, were in the port area awaiting evacuation by a huge fleet of allied ships. Fresh troops, mostly 3rd and 7th Division units which had not been chewed up by prior fighting, manned a defense perimeter around Hungnam, the port...
...running fight of the marines and two battalions of the Army's 7th Infantry Division from Hagaru to Hamhung-40 miles by air but 60 miles over the icy, twisting, mountainous road-was a battle unparalleled in U.S. military history. It had some aspects of Bataan, some of Anzio, some of Dunkirk, some of Valley Forge, some of the "Retreat of the 10,000" (401-400 B.C.) as described in Xenophon's Anabasis. The retreat of the 20,000 in Korea would not have been possible without General Tunner's ultramodern airlift, which supplied them with...
Bulldozers for the dead. Assembled in Hagaru, south of the frozen, blood-stained beaches of the Changjin Reservoir, the 1st Marine Division and the 7th had already suffered heavy casualties in battles with the encircling Communists. They had heard the screams of their comrades when the Reds lobbed phosphorous grenades into truckloads of U.S. wounded. When the order came to start south, the enemy was already closing in on Hagaru's makeshift airstrip, whence thousands of wounded and frostbite victims had been flown out. The last plane waited an extra hour for one desperately wounded...
...every hour as tanks bringing up the rear rolled across the coastal plain. Frantic photographers called to the bedraggled men, asked them to "wave and look happy." They obliged. The triumph was marred by more than 30% casualties, but the bulk of the marine division's and the 7th's survivors had reached safety and warmth. It was an epic of great suffering and great valor...
Three miles from the city of Koto on the narrow mountain road which led to safety, encircling Communist troops had blown the only bridge across a reservoir. With the bridge gone, the 20,000 men of the 1st Marine Division and the Army's 7th Infantry Division last week apparently had no choice but to abandon their vehicles, take out on foot and make a 20-mile detour through enemy-infested hills...