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r 10 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Friday, July 21, 1950 44 f 'J if t ' ,. v-J ';-f''T)r -iff - I ' - f 1 0f -JfT- jTM mm w1 1 - ZL-, B-29s Blast Red Port B-295 of the 20th air force score direct hit on industrial area of North Korean port, not identi fied by U. S. officials. Smoke billows from the target after hit. (Acme Telephoto) RETREAT Down 'Nightmare Alley By GENE SYMONDS Advance U. S. Headquarters, Korea, July 21 (U.R) Filthy young .Americans with muscles crying for rest and fear deep in their eyes and bellies are straggling Into this rear area today lor what r the army calls "regrouping.' . While Americans at home go to work with full stomachs and clean shirts, their soldiers- most of them young kids not ,long out of school come in here on DUiiei-riaaiea jeeps ana blasted trucks. They haven't eaten for hours and the only possessions they have are their powder-grimed rifles and carbines clutched tight in their hands. Hungry as they are, many of them don't even take time to eat the "C"-rations waiting for them but flop down in the dirt with a steel helmet for a pillow and fall into an uneasy sleep . punctured by dreams of the "nightmare alley" they had to ' travel to get here. . At first there was only a "small group and then, one by , one, truck by truck they began 1 to come in. - Unit sergeants try to make , lists of their men, but for some the list is small. The sergeants look at the piti fully few names and mutter, "Maybe they'll come in later." Capt. George Rogerson of Fol- Iansbee, W.Va., sees a group of his men come in and questions them. "Did you see our kitchen truck come out?" "I saw it get hit and the crew abandon it, sir," a private says. I don t know where they went." "What about the lieutenant?" "Last time we saw him he was coming out the road and he was under fire, sir." A heavy duly wrecker drives in with 10 or 15 grimy kids clinging to it. Its right front end is wrecked where a grenade hit it. Pvt. Denver Phillips of Froc- torvllle, O., drove it out. Game Bunch of Yanks Put 'Taejon' into U.S. History Editor's Note: Here is the battle of Taejon, as written in the pages of the history of the Korean campaign by the em battled 19th and 34th infantry regiments of the 24th division. (A United Press war correspondent reports that the valiant American stand at Taejon won valuable time for the building of the allied counter-offensive to throw the communists back across the 38th parallel border1 into North Korea) By RUTHERFORD POATS Somewhere in Korea, July 21 W.R) A game bunch of Yanks wrote "Taejon, Korea" into American history this week. On the approaches of Taejon, and in the muddy streets of this city of clapboard shacks and Jerry-built houses, the U. S. 24th infantry division fought its heart out against overwhelming odds and claimed deadly price in blood for each yard it yielded. When they finally lost burn ing Taejon to the Red invaders of South Korea, the thinned ranks of the 24th had won the chief ingredient of eventual al lied victory time. Ike Says U. S. Forces May I Have to Cross 38th Parallel . San Francisco, July 20 (U.R) General Dwight D. Eisenhower ,said Thursday it may be necessary for U. S. forces to cross the ,38th parallel to defeat the Koreans but he said he did not .believe such action would "bring Russia into the war." "I don't know where the point will be to which we will have t to go to defeat the enemy," Eis-i . enhowcr told a press conference. "If he will stay in the south un , til he can be beaten, we need to go no further, j "But wherever you have to go (to defeat them), you have to jgo." That place, he added, would "probably be the whole Korean .area." But even if U.S. forces drive past the 38th parallel, Eisenhow er said he believed "it would not bring Russia into the war." Eisenhower, vacationing for two weeks from his duties as president of Columbia universi ty, told reporters the North Ko reans "may refuse to retreat in which case the whole thing could be settled in the south." He said he based this conclu sion on the belief thnt totalitar ian governments in general "once having conquered ground, regard it as a weakness to re treat." "We must not fall," he said earnestly. "To fall In that area would be the occasion for an outburst of similar or worse incidents throughout the area controlled by the communists. "I see them (communists) as a sullen weight, leaning against Jhe boundaries all over Asia." , The World War II supreme Commander of allied forces In Europe said he thought the communists' Invasion of South I itfeTDoubl iynirmontybickilyoa l't llki Sunnybtnk'l lilt. (rash flsvor. Mide, jhlpped, told fresh, It t.tt.s frtsh I Korea signalized the understand ing by4he communists that our system of government is superior to theirs. "The communists realize that our system has more appeal than their own," he said. "If their system were valid, they could win out without aggres- Asked if he thought the Unit ed States should use the atomic bomb in Korea, Eisenhower said "I would not use it against per sonnel." He said if U.S. commanders in Korea "find reason for using it against materiel airfields and warehouses and if we could use it without, I might say 'cutting off human beings, then its use might be considered. "We're trying to stand before the world as decent, just, fair people, not as judges to extermi nate those who oppose us," he added. Eisenhower refused to discuss talk that he might be a presi dential candidate in 1952. An aide told reporters before the press conference began "let's not waste time" by asking Eiscn hower if he might run for presl-dent. Three weeks ago these young Americans left a carefree occu pation life in Japan. Then for two weeks they took a bloody pounding. They gained time for two fresh American divisions and a strong American air and nav al force to get into action. They fell back to the Kum river line before Taejon and there, for six days, they fought off well-armed communist for ces at least five times stronger numerically. By all the books of military science they'd have been justi fied in pulling out without a fight for Taejon. They were in desperate need of rest, regroup ing, and reinforcements. The Red radio boasted that the invaders would march into Tae jon for a time the temporary South Korean capital with bands playing and with "loyal Koreans" welcoming them in. They were welcomed, all right by a hail of bullets and mortars. Yank generals and colonels took up rifles, machine guns and bazookas and fought beside their tired doughboys. Maj. Gen, Wil liam Dean, division commander, held his key headquarters staff in Taejon and personally led re connaissance sorties. He even bagged a Red tank. If courage were the only factor, Taejon would still be ours. But there were other factors ammunition, commu nications, and thousands upon thousands of North Korean infantrymen who kept filling the holes the red-eyed Yanks knocked in their ranks. The battle of Taejon opened one week ago today, when North Korean troops wearing peasant dress and captured American1 uniforms Infiltrated across the western Kum river line into and behind the U.S 34th infantry regiment. By dawn Sunday the regiment was forced to fall back from the river line to within 15 miles of Taejon. Under cover of darkness the communists streamed through a 20-mile river front north of Tae jon which the thinly spread 19th regiment had held against a three-day assault by two Red divisions. The 19th was engulfed and fell back but it had done its work well. It took the Reds four days to patch up those two divisions The Taejon attack was held up until a completely new division believed to be the last the Reds have in reserve was brought up. In a flea-infested two-story uricK mulcting in Taeion. U.S staff officers awaited evacuation orders. Some predicted the city's tan Before Monday night. Now and then a jeep or truck would race through the deserted streets. Inside shops and homes. Ko rean civilians huddled, awaiting ineir new rulers. The main Red forces closed in. By nightfall Wednesday the American defense ring was on the city's outskirts. In the rice paddy no-man's-land, only the croaking of bullfrogs and the oc casional whine of a sniper's bul let broke the silence. At 5:45 a.m. yesterday com munist artillery, tanks, and in fantry opened an all-out at tack. North Korean troops disguised in American uni forms infiltrated the city and tried to cut off any American withdrawal. 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