Evening star., 1950-07-13
so B-29s Plaster
North Korean TARGET
In First Big Strike
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Sd Divisions were reported to
be continuing their pressure
along the Chonan-Taejon in
vasion route. The announce
ment said, There was rela-
lively little enemy pressure" in
the Chongju- u-UmSong area.
(The communique said enemy
activities in the Chungju-Tan-
yang area "had resumed after
a lull." Two enemy divisions,
the 5th and 18th. were reported
to have attacked South Ko-
rean forces near Chungan and
Chongnim.)
Forced Back by Engine Trouble.
was in 1t. Patrick's plane on
an assignment representing the
combined Allied press. But few
miles after grunting our plane
and its 10000 pounds of bombs
off the ground, we had to turn
back with a faulty motor.
The remainder of the sleek
bombers made perfect overwater
rendezvous and released their
bombs at-11:02 am, Japan day.
light time (9:02 pm, EDIT. We'd
nesday) through mist so thick
that radar was used to sight the
target.
Maj. Gen. Emmett Rosy)
O'Donnell directed this first mis-
sion of his new command, the Far
East Bomber Command (provi-
sionaD. The 43-year-old two-star
general, once a West Point foot
ball coach, led the first World
War II B-29 raid on Japan.
About so per cent of the men in
his new command are combat
tested veterans of thunderous pat
tern bombing missions from Ger
many to Japan.
They know they have the planes
and the experience to master this
kind of war-and they know, too,
what it was like for the infantry
men on the ground, most of them
untested before two weeks ago,
to be outnumbered and out
gunned.
Bridges Blown Up.
In the ground phase of the war
an advanced headquarters spokes-
man said several bridges across
the winding Kun River, 13 miles
north of Taejon, were blown up
last night. One was large rail-
way bridge.
The Reds launched a new drive
from newly won Tanyang, IS miles
northeast of Taejon. Heading
southwest, it looked like a push
to cut the vital rail line from
the southeast port of Pusan to
Taejon.
Gen. Macarthur announced the
appointment last midnight of
Gen. Walker, chief of the 9th
Army in Japan, as commander of
ground forces in Korea.
The 9th Army has set up an ad-
Vanced command post in Korea
and taken over the job of United
States Army forces in Korea
USAFIK). The latter command
was abolished. - s@
Gen. Walker made a flying visit |
to the Korean fighting front Sat-
urday. Gen. Macarthur did. not
say if Gen. Walker would return
to Korea.
A headquarters spokesman said
Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, for
mer commander in Korea, will be
used in whatever capacity Gen.
Walker wishes. The spokesman
said he did not know whether
Gen. Dean would revert to divi-
sion commander or be used in
some other capacity.
RadfOrd Flying Tokyo.
Admiral Arthur w. Radford,
commander in chief for the Navy
in the Pacific. was flying from
Pearl Harbor to Tokyo to confer
with Gen. Macarthur.
Gen. Macarthur communique
said the 18th and 5th North
Korean Divisions have started a
drive to the southwest Gin a wide
development heading for Ham
chang" As miles northeast of
Taejon and on line that would
take them to the Pusan-Taejon
railroad if they were successful.
Associated Press Correspondent
Tom Lambert reported from the
front that the drive began when
the Reds bridged the Han River
at Tanyang, about 20 miles east
of fallen Chungju, and sent one
division with artillery rolling
south.
The American-t trained South
Korean Eighth Division was driven
out of Tanyang, Gen. Macarthur
said, and other South Korean
troops were pushed back to
position about 10 miles southeast
of Chungju."
Planes Step Up Attacks.
Allied air power stepped up its
attacks on North Korean supplies,
personnel and lines of communi-