Evening star., 1950-09-08
Regiment
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capt. Mcintyre, historian for the
regiment. shouldered a gun when
hte Reds surrounded It's command
post. He said he chalked up one
Red in the fight that found every
one able to fire a gun fighting the
enemy.
Capt. Mcintyre said he went out
to see what he could do to help.
There was a wounded man in
a foxhole," he said. II made my
way to the man. He was hit pretty
bad. I didn't have any any first
aid equipment with me. Then q
voice in a nearby foxhol esaid,
DO you need first aid packet?'
Someone threw one over.
when I looked around to see
who had given me the packet, I
saw 1t was a lad who had been
badly wounded, too. Blood was
streaming down his face. He would
wipe the blood from his eyes, fire
a shot. wipe the blood away again.
To think that that boy who was
badly wounded would give his first
aid packet to someone else made
me realize how proud we should be
OF these men. 1t was one of the
finest things I have ever seen"
Tanks helped to cover the re-
treat of Regiment x to new de-
fensive positions.
The Reds pushed small harassing
parties into Changnyong and for
three days the city was infiltrated
but 1t was never captured by the
enemy.
Regrouped and recovered from
the initial assault by the Reds,
Regiment K began its counter
attack. Doughboys burned huts
on the outskirts Of Changnyong
to flush out snipers. Air and
artillery pounded enemy lines.
But 1t was the slogging dough-
boys of Regiment x who showed
the Reds off the hilsl and drove
them back toward the river.
Last Monday night the Com
munists tried another counter
attack at night" Maj. Mezar said.
They pulled artillery out in the
open and sent in a bunch of NOR
tars. They moved through the
rice paddles. They came at us in
droves. But we gave them eyery-
thing we had.
THE firing was 50 intense at
times that you could not dis
tinguish individual shots. There
was just one loud noise of
machinegun and small arms fire.
"You could hear the Cooks
yelling Don't shoot. Don't shoot
You've never seen anything like
it in your life"
Maj. Mezar said: 1.-THE attack
started about 10 pm. and lasted
until 5 am. They never let up.
We had Cooks all over this place.
We stayed in position and really
clobbered them"
Regiment K secured another
objective yesterdays high COM
manding ridge that left it only
one more ridge to go before
reaching the river less than two
and a half miles away.
Regiment x called it the saddle
back because of it's formation. A
small lake, with a road running
at the base of a series of ridges
leading up to the saddleback,
formed the southern boundary.
The saddleback was on the north.
The attack began at IL am.
against heavy enemy artillery and
mortar fire and without air sup
port. Casualties from that first
hour of fighting streamed back
from the forward aid station by
the truckload. But the objective
was secured within two hours.
In a cemetery on one of the
lower hills the Americans found
seven enemy dead. The position
had been strongly defended.
Twenty three burp guns, four ma
chine guns and IL rifles were cap
tured.
Enemy mortar fire was intense
during the first two hours of at
tack. Before the fighting was
over at least five Red 120 milli-
meter heavy mortars had been
knocked out. The Reds were
driven off the hills into a village
on the west side of the newly
captured position.
Artillery, mortars and planes
pummeled them, while machine
guns and small arms fire echoed
into the valley. Regiment x once
again was giving the Communists
the works.
Pfc. George Murphy of Spring
field, Mass, just back from the
battlefield. said the Reds were
streaming toward the river. When