Word: taechon
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...strike at the Red airstrip under construction at Taechon, 45 miles south of the Yalu. U.N. escort fighters were able to beat off Russian-built MIG interceptors, and the only loss-one of nine bombers attacking-was to flak. The pilot nursed the crippled 6-29 out over the Yellow Sea, where Lieut. Donald A. Birch used his precision bombsight to aim parachuting fellow crewmen at a tiny island. Twelve were rescued...
...second day, the Reds' resistance stiffened. They counterattacked in darkness. The R.O.K. 8th Division fell back six miles, and other South Koreans were stalled south of Taechon...