Seventh Infantry Division - Yearbook (South Korea)

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wwf' Rifle teams climb clown snow-covered slope as they advance on olaiective. dioed back that they had reached the Yalu. To the south, the other three battalions, the 31st Regimental Com- mand Post, 3rd Battalion of the 31st, the lst Battalion wg 1 of the 32nd, and the 57th Field Artillery, were at the be reservoir and the plan which had begun at Iwon less than a month before seemed completed. That was four days before MacArthur's cheering news that the division might be back in Japan for Christmas. And six days before the Reds intervened and Mortar squad disassembles equipment in preparation to move on. A column of enemy prisoners being marched to the rear for processing.

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-ff! - -X 4' :wifi .ff - , ww av 5 Q WWW ' K - f I 1 wif UN Troops advance cautiously past burning house. the vicious counterattack of November 27 Was launched .... It seemed fairly clear to the Army high command that the Reds would be forced to counterattack follow- ing the successful drive to the Yalu River and the res- ervoir. The Marines were already beginning to strike north from the large Chosin lake and were encountering Chinese forces of undetermined strength roaming the mountains. Sfc. Ervin G. Tweed HJ and Mf5g1. Thomas Mulholland Cr.J reminisce with old friend, lieuienanf General Maifhew B. Ridgway. Across the snow-covered valley and up the hill - ever onward.