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...Chinese intentions and capabilities. Until they became clearer, Allied attacks, whether large or small, would not be aimed at winning territory but at hurting and discouraging the enemy. At the top level, this was called a war of maneuver. A G.I. from Alabama, who found himself slogging north through Suwon for the third time, put it differently. "I feel like a yo-yo," he said...
...last week, in the western flatlands below Seoul, U.S. tanks found good going on hard-frozen roads. Out of recaptured Osan, two armor-tipped task forces -officially labeled a "reconnaissance in force"-rumbled north at 15 to 20 m.p.h. They caught most of the Chinese garrison in Suwon warming themselves in houses. The first shot was fired by an 18-year-old pfc. who spotted a Red scampering across a field, dropped him with one rifle bullet...
...Chinese ran for safety through Suwon's streets and across the rooftops while the Americans mowed them down. Airplanes cut down hundreds more north of the city. One of the task-force commanders gloated: "The enemy was caught with their pants down. We had not a single casualty. That's the way we like to fight...
Next day there was a thaw, gooey mud and another sharp fight for ancient, ruined Suwon. After a go-minute battle, the Chinese were driven out and the town pronounced "secure." Suwon itself was not an important objective; the Americans just wanted to deny it to the enemy as a staging base...
...enemy pushed a few spearheads beyond fallen Seoul, but failed to follow them up in force. Nevertheless, the retreating Allies lost no time in evacuating Suwon and putting its airfield to the torch. Next, they abandoned Osan (where the first U.S. units in Korea began their delaying action last summer). The road from there to Taejon, scene of last summer's most tragic battle, was clogged with refugees. And 50 miles to the east, a flanking threat was developing at Wonju, an important rail and road center which lies in rugged uplands like those around the Changjin reservoir...