BATTLE OF KOREA: Is This It?

Near Yonchon on the western front one night last week, a U.S. battalion was hit without warning by what one officer called "the damndest mortar and artillery barrage I know of." A few hours later a screaming, bugle-blowing Chinese regiment attacked the Americans and cut them off. It was the heaviest fighting on the western front since the truce talks in July.

The attacking Chinese were helped by Russian-built T-34 tanks and by planes, apparently propeller-driven Yaks. Two T-34s were wrecked by swarming allied planes. A U.S. armored task force rushed to the rescue...

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