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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