BATTLE OF KOREA: Big Push

Early last week the Communists unleashed a relatively large-scale attack on the northeastern port city of Pohang.

Pohang held, but only after U.S. units from other sectors had been moved up to support the underarmed South Korean defenders. Three days later, North Korean Marshal Ch'oe Yong Gun opened up on the southern and western fronts with everything he had; he had a lot.

Communist artillery on the southern front opened fire just before midnight Thursday. First the Reds fired at ten-minute intervals, then six, then three, then one. By 2 a.m. the Communist...

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