50 years ago today - 30 July 1950

[Ed Evanhoe <ede@oio.net>]

July 30, 1950

Sometime during the night an enemy unit moved around the right flank of the 
2nd Battalion, 19th Infantry, which was holding a position on high ground 
astride the Chinju-Hadong road, and cut the road.  Meanwhile the North 
Koreans mounted frontal attacks against the battalion, slowly forcing it to 
withdraw so by afternoon, the 2nd Battalion, and the attached remnants of 
the 3rd Battalion, 29th, were on the east bank of the Nam River about 2 
miles west of Chinju.  A lull developed as both sides prepared for the next 
battle.  After dark, the North Koreans mounted a series of small probing 
attacks on the 2nd Battalion.

2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry withdraws to new positions south of Sangju 
while the 24th Infantry Regiment withdraws to last defendable high ground 3 
miles west of Sangju.
Ed Evanhoe, PO Box 916, Antlers, OK, 74523
Author: DARKMOON: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War
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