BATTLE OF KOREA: Baldy & Bunker

An ugly, bare-hill mass with a flattened top, Old Baldy juts out awkwardly in front of the Eighth Army's stabilized, heavily fortified MLR (main line of resistance), a few miles west of Chorwon on the western front. U.S. troops captured Old Baldy last May. Since then it has changed hands more than once, but—up to last week—it was held by units of the U.S. 7th Division, with South Americans of the Colombia battalion attached. Baldy had some value as an observation point, but it was vulnerable to Communist attack on three sides. Mostly it had prestige value: it was what...

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