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...Lawton Collins and Hoyt S. Vandenberg, chiefs of the nation's ground and air forces, fresh from consultation with Douglas MacArthur. Their colleague, Admiral Forrest Sherman, was in Washington consulting with Congressmen. The day after the Korean Reds breached the 24th Division's line along the Kum River (see WAR IN ASIA), Collins and Vandenberg landed in Washington with this word for reporters: "Our troops are doing damn well and everything will come out all right...
...Korea this week, with the U.S. defense position breached and envelopment threatened from the flanks, the prospect that had been clearly visible last fortnight became even more imminent: a further series of withdrawals from the Kum River to a relatively short perimeter around the port of Pusan...
Even if the thin line of U.S. youngsters on the south bank of the Kum had miraculously prevented a single Communist from crossing, they would have had to pull out of the salient around Taejon anyway. The Communist drive on their right flank (see below) threatened to cut the rail line, perhaps encircle and destroy the forces on the U.S.'s first line of defense. After delaying the enemy as much as they could, their main business was to get out alive and intact...
...claim to understand the grand strategy of this thing, but I will never again lead men into a situation like that one. We were ordered to hold at all cost. We did, but the cost was awful . . ." The Americans were driven back to the Kum River above Taejon. Most of them dug in south of the river, where they had the advantage of a flood-control dike 20 to 30 feet high...
Pyongtaek, they retreated southward. Before the week was out, Chonan fell. Chonan was only 22 miles north of the Kum River (see above...