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...tactical maps with his division commander, Major General John Church, commanding officer of the U.S. 24th Division. There had been some concern that the Chinese-who had started to move into the city from the north and northeast that morning-might cut off the pontoon bridges over the Han which the U.N. forces would need for their retreat. General Church turned away from the maps and grinned. "We've been in lots tighter spots than this before," he said. "We'll get out all right...
...Chinese were well into the northwestern sector of Seoul. Baker Company of Mike Michaelis' ist Battalion was having a hot fight. The last frantic surge of refugees spewed forth across the ice of the frozen Han...
...minutes later the last of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders came out across the railroad bridge; in another quarter hour the span itself went down with the roar of eight tons of explosives. Farther to the west, at the southern end of the last remaining bridge across the Han, Mike Michaelis operated his C.P. from a jeep parked on the sandy approaches of the Han. Michaelis had just been told that his Baker Company had been cut off on the other side of the river...
...They Just Don't Care." All week long before Seoul fell, the refugees poured day & night through the city, out across the Han River ice and south along frozen roads, railroad tracks and byways toward Pusan. Hoping that the retreating U.N. forces would still stop somewhere and give them protection from the Communists, more than 1,000,000 of Seoul's 1,200,000 people took to the road. Altogether, nearly 2,000,000 were moving across the countryside...
...rest." Then the colonel had some cheese & crackers and a mug of tea, swung his carbine over his shoulder and marched off to join his riflemen. The counterattack came off successfully, and a few hours later, the British too started their pullback through Seoul and out across the Han to the south...