Seventh Infantry Division - Yearbook (South Korea)

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WM,,.,,---an-1 3 4 Famous Shanghai Bowl of the 31 sl Infantry Regiment on its return fo ihe countered and regained hnportant high ground through- out this vicious UN offensive. When it Was over, the 7th Division was in possession of the Iron Triangle. It had taken a half dozen hills in some of the most savage lighting of the Korean campaign. Anywhere else in the world, this real estate we had fought and suffered and died for Wouldn't have been Worth a damn. On October 25th, elements of the 2nd ROK Division relieved the Bayonet Division units in the Hill 598 sec- tor and as November began we moved into the defen- sive Line MISSOURI, the MLR and its OPLR. During the months of October and November a proportionately increasing number of patrols and small unit raids were carried out against the enemy. Several enemy probes against the MLR were repulsed and on 31 October, soon after the 7th took over on the line, an estimated enemy battalion deployed in three columns, attacked posi- tions of the 2nd and 4th Companies. Close combat in and around the Ethiopian positions lasted until 2315 when the enemy was repulsed finally. In November ag- gressive small unit actions by the 7th Division elements were portrayed by a coordinated raid by two platoons of Company G, 32nd Infantry on Hill 250 and Hill 419 in the Missouri sector. At 143 0, 7 November, the assault

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3rd Squads Were told to get ready for the assault. Lieu- tenant Wright attached the lst Squad automatic rifle to the 2nd in order that it would have automatic weap- ons power. Wright then had an assault group consisting of eighteen men including two AR men. Maddox had 45 riflemen with two light machine guns and four ARS to furnish support fire. At 0200 the men on the west knob began the support fire. PFC Joseph N. Nulph, the AR man attached to the 2nd Squad, describes the assault: We moved into the saddle between the two knobs in a skirmish line. Some of the support fire from the West knob Was going right over our heads. Illuminating rounds were bursting over the Chinese positions. I was firing short bursts from the AR as we moved. The rifle- men were rushing up the hill beside me, firing from the hip for the most part. The Chinese seemed Well pinned downg I think We moved about fifty yards and didn't draw a shot from the Chinks. When We got about twenty yards of the Chinese most of the men on the west knob had to lift their support fire or hit us. Then the Chinese opened up with quick bursts from burp guns and lobbed some concussion grenades down the slope. We hit the ground. They were firing right down our throats. I think a couple of our men were stunned from the grenades, but the burp guns just kicked up a lot of dirt around us. Some of the riflemen tossed their grenades up on the crest of the knob. I fired a short burst on the knob and crawled a few yards to my left and got into the commo trench. My assistant was right with me. I reloaded the AR and we started to move forward up the trench. Every few feet we stopped and I put a burst on the east knob. I think the Chink burp gun iire stopped when the riflemen's grenades exploded on the crest of the knob. My assistant and I worked our way right up to the crest of the east

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