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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
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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.
The outnumbered Yanks
fought from house to house in
the burning city, twice broke
through encirclements, knocked
out more than a dozen enemy
tanks, and withdrew to the
southeast around midnight with
out heavy losses.
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Children Flee Reds Separated from their parents, bewil
dered South Korean children trail along with their country's
soldiers as war brings grim fate to civilians caught by the
Red invasion. Photo by Ed Hoffman, NEA-Acme staff photog
rapher. (Telephoto)
Korea 'Piece in Plan
Of Soviet Aggression'
Los Angeles, July 21 U.R)-
Korea is "just one piece in the
Russian pattern of aggression"
but World War III is not immin
ent, publisher Virgil Finkley of
the Los Angeles Mirror says.
Pinkley told Junior Chamber
of Commerce members yester
day that he did not believe there
would be a shooting war be
tween Russia and the U. S. for
at least three years.
Russia trails the Western
powers in every military depart
ment except ground troops and
has not yet hit the peak of its
military and industrial program,
Pinkley said.
The griffon is a mythological
beast with the hinder parts of a
lion, the head, shoulders, wings'
and forelegs of an eagle.
60 Russian Planes
Roar Over U. S. Sector
Berlin, July 21 W A flight
of about 60 Russian fighter
planes roared over the Ameri
can sector of Berlin this evening.
The planes flew over the
American sector borough of
Wannsee at about three thou
sand feet. Formation flying
over the four-power city is con
trary to agreements.
Tornadoes strike the United
States more furiously and fre
quently than anywhere else in
the world.
Navy Orders 15
More Ships Fitted Out
San Francisco, July 21 U.B)
The Navy today ordered 15 more
ships 12 of them from mothball
fleets, to be fitted out to carry
men and supplies across the Pa
cific in support of the United
Nations forces in Korea.
The military sea transport
service said 11 of the ships will
come from the reserve fleet at
Suisun Bay, Calif., and the
other, the Sgt. Sylvester Anta
lok, will come from Olympia,
Wash.
Three cargo ships will sail
from the MSTS Atlantic fleet
to the Pacific. In addition, six
Navy and hospital ships already
are being reactivated and 20
cargo ships previously were or
dered outfitted.
Air Force Speeds Up
Training of Specialists
. Washington, July 21 u.PJ The
air force has ordered most of
its air training command schools
on a six-day week in order to
speed training of specialists
needed in Korea.1
Officials said the order will
step up the present graduation
rate by 20 per cent,
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