The U.S. troops who shot their way into Pyongyang last week were hot on the track of a Communist train loaded with 250 to 300 American prisoners. A few bearded and emaciated G.I.s, who had been hiding in Pyongyang, told Brigadier General Frank A. Allen, deputy commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, that other G.I. prisoners had been loaded on a northbound train. Allen got into his jeep and set out in pursuit. Inside a railway tunnel ten miles north of Sunchon, a South Korean soldier pointed out the bodies of seven...
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