Evening star., 1950-10-19
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a breeze for the smiling American
troops.
They were cheerful, even
though they had been driving hard
for the past 80 days"
Defense Plan Exploded.
The speed of the Allied advance
evidently had knocked sky high
any overall Red defense plan. In
slightly more than a month, the
U. N. forces had smashed out of
their once perilouS Pusan beach
head perimeter in Southeast Ko-
rea, trapped the Reds in the
south and plunged across Parallel
80 into the Red North.
Mr.. Whitehead said feeling ran
high that Pyongyang's capture
would signal a quick end of the
war. Men were shouting: when
do we go home?" Mr.. Whitehead
continued:
Brig. Gen. Frank A. Allen, jr.,
of Washington and Cleveland
watched the march through
streets of Pyongyang and said:
Il just wish that those lads
who had their hands tied behind
their backs were here to see this. y
He referred to soldiers who were
bound and killed by Red Koreans
in the south.
And then in the rubbed street,
Gen. Allen met Gen. Paik Sun
Yup. the roundfaced little Korean
who commands the ROK 1st Di-
vision. They threw their arms
around each other"
Congratulations Exchanged.
Gen. Allen said, "the 1st Cav
airy Division wants to congratu-
late you on a wonderful job"
Gen. Paik congratulated the
Americans, then patted every one
on the back and said over and
over: Damn good job"
The 1st Cavalry battalion to
reach Pyongyang is commanded
by 1t. Col. Paul Clifford of Frank
lin. N. H. 1t was led by IS tanks
from the 10th Tank Battalion.
"The Reds had fought all day
yesterday and last night to hold
the ridge line at Hukkyo. But they
crumpled when the 5th Cavalry
Regiment hit the line this morn
ing" Mr.. Whitehead reported.
Five Red tanks were knocked
out and the column began to roll.
Roads Uttered With Bodies.
ut swept through the ridges
into open plains before Pyong-
yang, then rushed up the road
like Gen. Patton's columns in
World War II. The rolled on,
shooting up the enemy.
The roads were Uttered with
bodies of North Korean troops,
who. moved too slowly to escape.
The bodies were slumped in
bitches, fields and .haystacks along
the way.
THE column overran machine
guns, anti-tank guns, bundles of
Red clothing and columns of sup
plies in oxcarts. There were
blankets. overcoats and odds and
ends that are carried by an army
expecting a winter campaign.
But there would be no winter
campaign for this army. 1t was
broken and beaten"
Resistance Stiffens.
Correspondent Waugh entered
the city with Col. Clifford's bat
talon.
From Mr.. Waugh's vantage
point, the Reds kicked up artil-
Ilery and mortar fire at first. One
shell threw dirt on him and others
taking shelter behind a building
The resistance was compare
lively sitter after the Reds fell
back behind the Taedong River
Earlier, a United States 9th
Army spokesman said: eve
haven't captured Pyongyang yet.
but everything seems to be going
along all right"
First word of the Cavalry troop
ers' entry into the capital came
from a pilot, Capt. Robert Terry
of Corsicana, Tex:
"They are in," he radioed;
they won the race to be the first
into Pyongyang!"
And quite a race it was. The
South Korean 1st Division, thrust
ing northWard and eastward over
a secondary mountain road. had
appeared for a time to have an
advantage over the hard-charg-
ing cavalrymen.
But the republics troops rar
into heavy resistance on the cap
ital's eastern outskirts and were
halted temporarily. Elsewhere. il
was thin defense line before the
capital.
Red rearguards attempted tt
stop the 1st Cavalry from a lint
of trenches stretching 2 mile.
along ridges south of the city
Huge stocks of equipment were