Evening star., 1950-09-13
Gen. Walker Declares
Yank Offensive in
Korean War Is Near
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a peak Tuesday in a bitter day.
long battle.
Red Koreans pushed 1st Cav
airy Division troops off a hill 8
miles northwest of Taegu near
the Waegwan-Taegu road. First
Cavalry elements, Gen. MacAr-
thurs communique reported,
seized high ground north of the
Waegwan area" Tuesday night.
"They make gains and We make
gains" a spokesman said. "They
push us and then we push them"
The Naktong River and south
west fronts were relatively quiet.
NORTHEASTERN FRONT.
In the northeast sector, the Red
thrust last week end threatened
Pohang airstrip. The Commu-
nists drove wedge S miles deep
and 8 miles wide into the Allied
line between Pohang and Angang.
8 miles southwest.
1--WE watched the penetration
and it gradually grew worse" said
Gen. Davidson, Army right end
in the mid-1920s and West Point
head coach from 1888 to 1887.
Maj. Gen. John H. Church. COM
mander of the trail-blazing United
States Oath Division, sent Gen.
Davidson into the battle.
Gen. Davidson led a flying col
umn of South Koreans and Amer
lean doughboys. They struck west
from the Pohang area in a sweep
ing left end run.
A column of South Koreans al
ready had sealed the northern
gate of the mountain corridor
northwest of Kyongju in which
the regiment of Red troops was
massed.
A series of three ridges domi-
mated the southern pass.
When ''task force Davidson" ar
rived, South Koreans already had
taken the first ridge.
The task force rolled on and
seized the second.
But it found two Red battalions
dug in on the bare and f1inty
slopes of the third.
The terrain, said Gen. David
son. "was strictly something a
billygoat would have trouble
climbing"
Gen. Davidson called for air
support.
A flight of Allied planes sowed
the ridge with jellied gasoline fire
bombs and machine-gun fire.
They did a magnificent job."
Gen. Davidson said.
"Task Force Davidson" stormed
the last ridge. The Reds broke
and ran. About $50 Communists.
remnants of a group of TOO, we're
squeezed in a pocket from three
sides.
II don't know how many we
killed" said Gen. Davidson. "But
we did get a large quantity of
personal weapons-machine-guns,
rifles and burp guns"
The Communist remnants fled
to the northwest. Task Force
Davidson" moved up the corridor
In a drive to pin the Reds against
the South Korean wall at the
north gate.
The Reds were faced with the
task of scrambling over the peaks
to Their own lines or running the
risk of capture or death.
The Davidson maneuver gave a
lift to the whole northeast front.
1t had been in desperate peril
last week when the Reds drove q
wide gap in Allied lines.
The Allied drives northeast of
Yongchon and northwest of
Kyongju marked the biggest
United Nations offensive since 1st
Division Marines drove the Reds
from the Naktong River bulge, in
late August.
At the high-water mark of the
Red drive September 1-3, the
Communists twice entered Yong
chon and punched to the out
skirts of Kyongju.
The 9th Army said firm Allied
line now runs II miles east from
Yongchon.
A Macarthur spokesman said
"to the best of my knowledge
every entry Con the Northern
'front.' is stopped"
A South Korean regiment
launched an attack in driving rain
northwest of Kyongju Monday. It
pushed back more than one mile
the North Korean 18th Division
which has lost much of it artillery
in the last three days.
CENTRAL FRONT.
On the Naktong River front
North Korean forces withdrew
Tuesday night from hill positions
they had won Sunday 312 miles
southwest of Changnyong. An
American spokesman said it was
not known why the Reds with
drew, Americans had not attacked
SOUTHWEST FRONT.
On the southwest front, the Red
Korean 9Th Division threw mortar
and artillery fire at United States
25th Division lines 3 miles north
west of Chindong.
About 80 Reds attacked an
American gun position behind the