Word: walker
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...night, or by day disguised as white-clad peasants, and shot up U.S. positions from the flank and rear. The Kum line could not be held. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division and the 25th Infantry Division arrived from Japan to help the battered 24th, and Lieut. General Walton Walker was appointed MacArthur's ground cornmander in Korea. The Americans fell back from Taejon to Kumchon, the next important junction on the rail and road line to Pusan...
...south and east coasts-which was to grow smaller before it grew bigger. The south flank rested just west of Masan, the center of the line shielded Taegu, the vital "turntable," and on the east coast the line touched the sea north of Pohang. To defend his perimeter, Walker had, or soon would have, elements of five U.S. divisions-the 24th, 25th and 2nd Infantry, the 1st Cavalry, the 1st Marine...
Last Gasp. In the south, Walker on Aug. 7 mounted the first sustained U.S. counterattack of the war, to drive the enemy back from his disquieting proximity to Pusan. General Craig's marines joined this "spoiling attack," but Walker pulled them out after they had helped to upset the enemy. He had to make shift with what troops were already at hand, shuttling them from one crisis to another. The next reserves due to arrive-the bulk of the 1st Marine Division from the U.S. and the 7th Infantry from Japan-were earmarked for Operation Chromite, the invasion...
Cute brown-eyed brunette Lois Love Ebeling of Philadelphia and 20 Walker street, Radcliffe, was elected Miss Radcliffe of '54 yesterday by a group of wide-eyed CRIMSON editors...
Since the initial United Nations debate on Korean aggression, Korea has been primarily a symbol--a symbol meaning different things to different nations. It does not appear that General Walker and his superiors have taken propre consideration of the symbolic aspects of the situation...