Evening star., 1950-08-22
9th Regiment
Breaks Out of
Enemy's rop
By Russell Brines
Assoeioted Press Foreign Correspondent

American troops and tanks wiped
out a threatening Red Korean
roadblock 10 miles north of Taegu
yesterday while their mates took
three commanding hills to block
the coastal gateways to Pusan
port in the south.
The Reds behind the lines road
block near Taegu had choked off
all Allied supplies from Taegu for
two hours and threatened to trap
troops of the United States 9th
"Wolfhound" Infantry Regiment.
The central front and extreme
southern fighting was the most
bitter of the 24-hour period ended
Tuesday midnight.
Gen. MacArthur's headquarters
announced its midnight COM
munique would be omitted as there
was no change in the situation.
All along the 120-mile perimeter
of the Allied beachhead United
Nations troops held firm or ad-
vanced.
$4,000 Hurled at Line.
The Reds had showed 10000
men-nine divisions-against the
Allied defense line.
For the third straight night the
North Koreans tried to push ele-
ments of three divisions down the
same road to Taegu. America1
tanks and men stopped them IL
miles north of the city.
Associated Press Correspondent
Don Whitehead with the Ameri-
cans north of Taegu said infil-
trating Red snipers and machine
gun fire pinned down troops and
correspondents along the noun
tain road. ss4- -..
The two-nour tank battle. pit
ting big American Pershings
against Russian made T-34s,
blazed in Tuesdays early morning
darkness.
Four Aston American tanks
caught nine 32-ton Russian built
machines on the same road the
Reds have tried to come down to-
ward Taegu. The tanks blazed
away at 800 yards.
Artillery Aids Tanks.
Capt. Otis D. Saum of Water
bury. Conn. in command Of the
tanks from the 73d Tank Com
pany, said United States guns
knocked out the second tank in
the column with a shell through
the right front track.
Then we got hit under the
turret of the leading tank" Capt.
Saum said, land it was set afire
by the white PHOSPHORUS she'll"
The tanks hammered at each
other, Capt. Saum said, with
American artillery joining in the
battle.
United States tanks got two of
the Reds tanks and artillery got
the other two. That boosted the
number knocked out Immediately
north of Taegu in three days by
the Americans to 10 Russian made
tanks.
All the American tanks escaped
serious damage.
Americans Hold Firmly.
On the blazing southern front
the United States 25th Infantry
Division and the 5th Regimental
Combat Team from Hawaii held
firmly astride the blood stained
road to Pusan, IS miles to the
east.
The 35th Regimental Combat
Team Tuesday drove numerical
ly superior Red force from a COM
manding ridge near Chungam,
four miles northwest of the dusty.
clapboard village of Haman.
The 5th Regimental Combat
Team stormed up the steep So
buk Hills near Tundok, just south
Of Chungam.
Negro troops Of the gath In
fantry Regiment retook nearby
Battle Mountain" for the fifth
time in four days.
That Strengthened out the
American battle line.
Lost Ground Regained.
Associated Press Correspondent
Stan Swinton, in a dispatch timed
after the United States 9th Army
communique at $40 pm. (6:10
am, EDIT yesterday, said re-
capture of the mountain won
back for the Americans all the
ground they. had lost Monday
The 9th Army communiuue had
(See KOREA, Page A-3.)