Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1950 — Page 3

allant Stand of Yan In Battered Taejon Gained Valuable Time Outnumbered 5 to 1, Men of 24th Division ° Held Foe Off for 6 Days by Sheer Courage

: Here is the battle of Taejon, as written in the E pages of the history of the Korean campaign by the embattled 19th and 84th 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 sto throw the Communists back across the 38th parallel border into North Korea. \ Tan,

By RUTHERFORD POATS, United Press Staff Correspondent SOMEWHERE IN KOREA, July 21—A game bunch of Yanks! wrote “Taejon, Korea” into American history this week. | On the approaches to 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 a deadly price in blood for each yard it yielded. When they finally lost burning — Reames ms Taejon to the Red invaders of : | South Korea, the thinned ranks pg mor S i of the 24th had won the chief ingredient of eventual Allied victory—time. Three weeks ago these young ‘Americans left a carefree occupation life in Japan. ; Then for two weeks they took a bloody pounding. They gained] time for two fresh American divisions and strong . American air and naval forces to get action. ; They fell back to the Kum southeast of Taejon and 100 miles River line before Taejon and northwest of Pusan. (Continued From Page Ome) there, for six days, they fought] The dispatch said North Korean ¢ s i , , ’ he seizure of Berlin by the off well-armed Communist forces guerrilla snipers were reported to’ force of arms. at least five times stronger nu- have penetrated up to 18 miles . Zz . i Becausé of the initial re- | Merieally. south of Taslon. . verses suffered by U. S. troops A Different Welcome | Earlier Report in Korea, Cominform chief | By all the books of military sci-| Earlier reports said the Reds Malenkov's star has lately ence they'd have been justified in Nag pitacked ie Sew American Neen higher fh the Politburo pulling out without a fight for i Tea tn ou Fon leg ranks. Se Taejon. They were in desperate gtrapgth-.probably 1500 to 20000 A PROTEGE of Malenkov, need of rest, regrouping and rein- men—with heavy tank support at Gen. Nessin received Red Army | forcements. 10:30 a. m. (7:30 p. m. Thursday, rank immediately folowing the The Red radio boasted that the Indianapolis Time). death of A. N. Zhasuny: Prior | tnvaders would march into Tae-| The latest dispatch from United !0 Ris recent death at the age —for time the temporary Press War Correspondent Peter °f 50, Zhdanov, who headed the SRefor a tim porary | Cominf hen * broke with -South Korean capita}—with bands|Kalischer indicated that the heavy| UOminform when ° broke with | playing and with “loyal Koreans” attack had forced the Americans Marshal Tito, was widely rewelcoming them in. {to abandon their first lines of de-| Sarded as Stalin's Successor. | They were welcomed, all right fense and fall back deeper into He Jus a bitter rival of Mal- | — -ithe hills overlooking the roads © : | by a hall of bullets and mor | running southeast oe south oo Accused of weeding out pro- | Yank generals and colonels Taejon. : took up rifles, machine guns and, It appeared that the North Ko‘bazookas and fought beside their/réans were trying desperately to =. ‘ : . tired doughboys. Maj. Gen. Wil-{Smash on to the southeast before UL 8. artillery ‘and guns of the liam Dean, division commander, the Americans could regroup after Seventh Fleet lying of Mie egst held his key headuarters staff|losing Taejon. coast are supporting the attack, in Taejon and personally led re-| The 21st Regiment began dig- th¢ Spokesman said. connaissance sorties, He even|Sing into the new defenses below Cruisers - Attack . bagged a Red tank. {Taejon last Sunday Jong before! A naval announcement six | If courage were the only fac-| the Reds launched their climactic hours earlier sald two cruisers— tor, Taejon would still be ours. assault on the city. {one American and one British—| But there were other factors—| 1he Americans finally pulled had leveled Yongdok with a ammunition, communications, and | 2% of Tasjon last midnight, but heavy bombardment Wednesday. ‘ thousands upon thousands of in a 2 on oY. the light- The North Koreans had captured North Korean infantrymen who Bg attack still were in the the town Tuesday. » 4. burning city today. Other units of the Seventh kept filling the holes the red-| Mal. Gen Wikiahi F Dean Fiat coms ed ant et eel eyes Yanks knocked in their. o.oo, ier of the embattled 24th | sever 1 pind ot ora { mb 2 a : as ol ranks. { Division, was last seen with one|the naval announcement said. | How the Battle Began {of the cut-off units. However,| On the central front, a South The battle of Taejon opened| American stragglers were slip-| Korean : regiment captured the one week ago today, when North fing throngs he snemy lines un | highway and railway jenction of Korean troops wearing peasant|, By na eT r or aes | dress and captured American uni opp, | Still other South Korean units forms infiltrated across the| Gen Dean's interpreter reached drove to the outskirts of Punggi, western Kum River line into and|the main U. 8. lines today for|15 miles north northeast of Yebehind the U. S. 3ith Infantry|treatment of a shoulder wound|chon, and were mopping up two n : and said Gen. Dean still was alive| Communist battalions in that] Regiment. . t and “fighting like a tiger” when| area. Gen. Douglas MacArthur By dawn Sunday the i Lo last saw him, {reported in his afternoon com-| was forced to fall back from | General Gets Tank | munique. : river line to within 15 miles of} Gen. Dean personally knocked Bad weather again hampered| i ‘ithe Air Forces, but F-80 jet Taejon. 3 the! Out one of the 13 to 14 enemy) 4 36.) Under cover of darkness [tanks destroyed during the Tae. | A8NtErs claimed to have de-| Communists streamed through 2 jon fighting yesterda ~ |stroyed 14 railway cars and, 20-mile river front north of Tae-| A volinteor B pgaY i ¢| damaged six tanks, four trucks) jon which the thinly spread 0th to oo Bae umn of and two other vehicles in 52| Regiment had held against A Beek hE y SUpPOrt| gorties up to 4 p. m. “ three-day assault by two Red) © eC Fi the enemy| mpe jets also strafed the] divisions. Inight. b Foetus en. Dean last| ra jtway yards and left them! The 19th was engulfed and fell night, but was turned back bY! burning. F-82 twin Mustangs|

Yanks Move Back

Below Taejon {Continued From Page One)

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First Cavalry Division's beach-| head at Pohang-Dong.

back but it had. done its work|the Reds. The column did. pick! claimed to have damaged one well. It took the Reds four days up two wounded Americans along tank and a truck in two sorties.| to patch up those two divisions.ithe way, however. A sergeant! (en, MacArthur said in a The Taejon attack was held up said one of the tanks was miss- special communique that recon-! until a completely new division— ing. | naissance photographs showed believed to be the last the Reds! = A spokesman at Eighth Army| Communist railway movements! have in reserve—was brought up. headquarters in Korea safd South!thro ugh Seoul, the enemyIn a flea-infested two-story Korean forces had launched al occupied former South Korean brick building in Taejon, U. 8. successful attack on the east|capital, have been brought to a! staff officers awaited evacuation coast “in the vicinity of Yong-| virtual standstill as result of a,

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First post-World War Il set of twins to enlist in the Navy here were already in "boot training” . at San Diego, Cal, today. They helped swell Indiana Navy District enlistments in July to record Into I S Lines | peacetime 174 as of yesterday. Shown taking the oath administered Tuesday by Lt. Cmdr. R. S. 'plan to get in the current military « Us | Wheeler, new chief of recruiting headquarters in the Federal building, are Marvin E. (left) and (crisis. i | Darvin T. Hager, I8, Lawrenceville, lll. Indiana Navy District covers two-thirds of Indiana and four

From Attack on Yugoslavia into lective seemed to be the highway junction of Yongdong, 23 nr Seen Matter of Weeks

Zhdanov officers in the Red Army, Nessin b. “me involved in a drawn-out conflict with

| Gen, D, F. Gasparian, then assistant chief of the Soviet Gen- |

eral. Staff. But in October, 1949, jen. Gasparian died under mysterious circumstances. Despite the intensity of the

i Korean conflict, the consensus | here is that Marshal Tito re- { mains Stalin’s No. 1 target. A

satellite ttack on Yugoslavia is believed to be only weeks away. The attack take place simultaneously with any con-

| sent by Moscow to mediate the

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Air Force May Ask ' | War Il Veteran Draft (Continued From Page One) respectively. They now have 408! § 1000 and 454,000. The Army, he} .isald, plans to expand from its! present strength of 596,000 to just} short of the legal limit of 837,000.! Maj. Gen. Clovis Byers, testi-| fying for the Defense Depart-!| ment, told the House committee | that except for the Air Force there 1s no plan now to ask au-| i thority to draft World War 11! | veterans, i i Under the present draft law! {only men 19 through 25 are sub-| {ject to induction and veterans of| the past war are exempt except! iin cases of men who served less) {than three months. i { Mr. Vinson told the Army, !Navy and Air Force to be ready Monday to tell—probably in closed! session—exactly what they now have in the way of men, ships.!| planes and tanks, and what they!

Members of “several” Navy or-| ganized . Air Reserve squadrons] were hit first by a stepped-up!

Canada Opens All-Out mobilization program. They reé-|

ported at training stations today. Recruiting Campaign | Some 47,000 officers and men of OTTAWA, Ont., July 21 (UP) {the Marine Corps’ Reserve ground, —The armed services ‘began an nits We ote ts Feport. to; all-out recruiting drive today, | Fil iil i , yp National sparked by a Soverpment warn-| suard Te or rererted tae. jing that ¢ Sradian Toons may {nent as the Defense Department! Defense Minister Brooke Clax- Retpiea ga undisclosed Dumber] ton issued the call for fighting to Rog An Fy Snits 3 rpane {men last night in a nationwide | yp pb OF tare.’ ar has a i radio appeal. . ™ ure,

hh : To replace Guard units expected . oy ito be called to active duty, sev-| Clinic Head to Speak {eral states moved to form re-! Times State Service LAFAYETTE, July 19 aia

Dr {serve militia. M. D. Steer, director of the FALL INTO PIT FATAL Speech - and Hearing Clinic ati GARY, July 21 (UP)—Loyd O. Purdue University, will speak to- Curry, 38, Munster, an electrician day and tomorrow at: a confer-!died Yesterday at Methodist Hos-| ence in Syracuse University, Syr-|pital of a skull fracture suffered acuse, N. Y. He will describe the Monday when he fell 18 feet to the! clinic's work on speech pathology lconcrete bottom of a pit at a Budd under a Navy contract. 'Co. plant being built here. i

Romanian and Albanian troops | are gathering on Yugoslavia’s |

borders. Albania recently charged Yugo-

Both Bulgaria and §

slavia with “acts of aggression.” !

At the same time, the Cominform is stepping up its war of nerves against Tito. In nightly broadcasts in dozens of languages. the Cominform’s entire radio network is now accusing Yugoslavia of having become an American military

base for an attack against |

Russia. I am also reliably informed that French and Italian Communist commando detachments have just been issued orders to establish insurrectionary -cen-

{ ters in Southern France and

Northern Italy. A massing of

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Communist military youth or- | ganizations has been ordered |

by the Cominform areas, # ~ = IRONICALLY enough, concentration in Southern France is scheduled for the end of August disguised as a youth “Peace Festival” The

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the Communist Federation of Democratic Youth. Meanwhile, there are persistent rumors here and elsewhere in France that the Communists have decided to stage a coup d'etat. This will ostensibly be preceded by a vigorous demand by the French Party for the establishment of a “Government of Democratic Union” in

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orders. Some predicted the city’s! Gok.” 88 miles north of Pusan and] 500-ton UI 3s ewih of 2 fall before Monday night. NOW o7 miles above the American! July 16. . and then a jeep or truck would race through the deserted streets.|

Civilians Take Cover . '] Inside shops and homes, Ko-!| yean civilians huddled awaiting ‘their new rulers. f The main Red forces closed in. |

By . nightfall Wednesday the] American defense ring was on] the city’s outskirts. In the rice-| paddy Tmo-man’s-land, only the eroaking of bullfrogs and the occasional whine of a sniper’s bul-| let broke the silence. ! At 5:45 a. m. yesterday Com-| munist artillery, tanks and infantry opened an all-out attack. North Korean troops disguised in American uniforms infiltrated the; city and tried to cut off any American withdrawal. The outnumbered Yanks fought from house to house in the burn-| ing city, twice broke through en-| circlements, knocked out more! than a dozen enemy tanks, and withdrew to the southeast around midnight without heavy losses. |

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