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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