Word: borders
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Tank Terror. Like the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, the North Koreans attacked early on a Sunday morning (June 25), and struck south in a six-pronged drive, with a heavy force of armor aimed at Seoul. U.S. intelligence had reported that North Korean troops were massed on the border, but the enemy had achieved surprise by a prior series of false alarms in the form of border raids, so that no one paid enough attention this time. This time it was not a raid...
This week the South Korean 3rd and Capitol Divisions stabbed across the 38th parallel and up the Sea of Japan coast. Their initial thrust took Yangyang, seven miles north of the border, and reached Kansong, more than 20 miles farther on. Red fortifications were mostly unmanned and resistance negligible. Captured North Koreans said they had been ordered to fall back to Wonsan, 70 miles above the 38th parallel, for a stand...
...Line. By week's end MacArthur had also received more concrete instructions. From the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff came orders permitting him to send his forces well above the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, provided they stayed out of the mountains south of the Korean-Manchurian border. In short: invade but don't get too close to Vladivostok...
With the monsoon season waning, Communist-led Viet Minh rebels began to apply rising pressure against scattered French outposts along IndoChina's rugged, 550-mile border with Red China. Four Communist battalions attacked the isolated clay fort at Dongkhe (100 miles north of Hanoi), overpowered its 200 French Foreign Legion defenders in a hand-to-hand fight. They also shelled Thatkhe, ten miles south of Dongkha, while other Communist forces massed near the French-Chinese frontier...
...soon as the Reds' plans became clear, border guards were reinforced to prevent further crossings. West Germany's police force of about 100,000 was issued carbines, tear-gas bombs and steel helmets, got busy building roadblocks on the approaches to target cities, notably Hamburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen. Policemen careened through the streets, sirens screaming, arrested 500 known Communist leaders as a preventive measure. The British called their Fourth Guards Brigade back from maneuvers to stand by for disorders in the Ruhr...