Word: us
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Next morning we sent patrols down the road and they didn't find much, so we proceeded. I was in the fourth jeep from the front and Colonel Kim, the R.O.K. commander, was just ahead. As we rounded a curve the whole side of the mountain ahead of us opened up with fire. Colonel Kim's driver was mortally wounded by the first volley. My jeep was hit all over as we went for the ditch and fired back. My interpreter was killed and several others were hit. Twenty-five minutes later the enemy had overrun our position...
...mountains to the north. We formed a vehicle column and headed southwest. Our advance patrol encountered two enemy groups but blasted them out with artillery. When we were about ten miles out, we heard firing far ahead, and assumed-and still assume- that it was the 31st coming for us...
...About 20 of us were working our way back along the road, crawling on our hands and knees. As I approached an open space I heard a voice in English say, 'Don't go across there, major. I will take you out of here.' This turned out to be Nam Gung Kag, a civilian in the R.O.K. counter-intelligence corps. Nam took us down to the edge of the North Han River and by this time we were out of the enemy fire. He said he knew where a boat was tied up, but we found...
...us along the railroad track and then up a mountain trail. We walked from 1 to 8 p.m., and reached a village where Nam had an uncle. Others., reached the village and next morning about 100 of us got into a power-company boat and started south. The boat took water, and we had to put 30 out to keep from sinking. We got out of the boat at Chongpyong and got rides in here to Seoul...
...council's conclusions: the four gangs had been started out of aggravated notions of self-protection. "The Rompers used to come around here," explained one JayBee, "and just pick on us, punch us in the mouth . . . They knifed us in the behind and everything . . . We decided to get together...