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...Warrior of Liberation." Tsung's army crossed the Imjin last month. On May 15 it headed for the Han, to wipe out the U.N. bridgehead. The Manchurian farmer's battalion had twelve field pieces, and his platoon operated two of the 76-mm. pieces, with 60 rounds for each gun. Supplies of shells got up to the front pretty regularly...
...Like a Walk. West of Chunchon, the Chinese aimed a force of 25,000 men down the Pukhan River valley toward the confluence of the Pukhan and the Han. If successful, this assault would have been a serious flanking threat to Seoul. It was beaten off. South Koreans, fighting well on this front, killed 684 (counted) Reds with bayonets and knives...
...Zoologist Bivouacked in the piny hills near the Han early last week, the 25th Division had its hands full digging in for the expected Chinese assault. But for the buddies of Corporal William Old even the din of Communist whistles and bugles was hardly more terrifying than his tales of poisonous mollusks, leopards, bears and 1,500-lb. Manchurian tigers roaming the Korean countryside. The fascinated G.I.s had good reason to believe that baby-faced "Buster" Old knew what he was talking about...
Besides hunting Chinese Reds and Korean snails, Buster serves as adviser to his outfit on all matters zoological. He has taught them to recognise a poisonous snake or two, and during the pre-battle lull he gave them the word on swimming in the Han: little danger of schistosomiasis because oncomelania prefer narrow, shaded streams. A good chance of picking up paragonimiasis because the broad, open river might have Paragonimus westermani...
...Free translation: the snails that are host to the parasite causing swimmer's itch and even nastier diseases probably won't be found in the Han. But if you want to gamble on a dose of lung flukes, the Han is pretty sure to have them...