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...block enemy thrusts; but for political, morale and strategic reasons it seemed to the top command important to hold Taegu, the provisional capital of the South Korean government and an important base for U.S. tactical aircraft. The hold-Taegu strategy, obviously ordered by General Douglas MacArthur and General Walton Walker, prevailed. By last week there were heartening signs that that strategy was correct...
...greater force on the south coast. But it was too early to feel safe. The North Koreans still held the initiative, still fought with unabated fury -and apparently, with ample reserves-to destroy the U.S. beachhead. They had assembled massive forces aimed at Taegu (see map). Tough, ubiquitous General Walton Walker was still forced to shuttle his units from one crisis to another, like a Dutch boy trying to plug four holes in the dike with two thumbs...
...columns drove through Chinju and on toward Masan, only 30 miles from the main U.S. supply port of Pusan. West of Masan the grim and battered G.I.s of the U.S. 24th Division threw themselves into the line once more, and the Red advance ground to a halt. Lieut. General Walton H. Walker hastily moved the 25th Infantry Division to the southern front to shore up the 24th. This week the 24th had moved north, was facing another Red assault on the Naktong River...
...this was their primary aim, they had -up to this week-signally not succeeded. But the threat was there and would be there until U.S. reinforcements (which began to land in Korea this week) were in position. Knowing the threat, and sick & tired of retreat, Lieut. General Walton Walker called his division commanders together, gave them a stern order: their troops must hold their lines or die where they stood...
...walked out of Seoul and I want to walk back in," said the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins after Lieut. General Walton H. Walker had ordered her out of Korea (TIME, July 24). Like many another soldier, old and young, General Walker was convinced that women do not belong in a combat zone, where standards of dress, language and sanitation are likely to be primitive...