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...week's end the advance had bagged Pyongchang and Pangnim, some 20 miles from the jumping-off place. The enemy was losing up to 2,100 casualties a day. His resistance had changed from light to "moderate" to "stiff." On the west flank, where the Han River bends south from the Seoul flatlands, he held stubbornly...
Last January he left the Academy for Korea, to command the IX Corps engaged on the bloody central front below the 38th parallel. Last week Bryant Moore flew over the front in a helicopter. Above the Han River, near Yoju, he told his pilot to go down for a closer look. The plane's rotor hit a cable. It crashed...
...forces below Seoul closed in on the Han River, Communist anti-tank guns firing from a hill briefly stalled the advance. A company of G.I.s, led by Captain Lewis Millett of South Dartmouth, Mass., charged the crest with fixed bayonets, spitted 47 Chinese, shot down 50 more as they ran down the north slope. The advance continued...
General Ridgway quickly brought up four divisions to the Han, while a few North Korean rearguards scrambled across the thawing and treacherous ice. While British tanks dueled across the river with Communist self-propelled guns (and with one captured British tank fired by the Reds from a tunnel), two armored U.S. task forces sped northwest and west to take Kimpo Airfield, Korea's biggest, and Inchon, Seoul's port, without a fight. Both were almost total ruins...
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...