Seventh Infantry Division - Yearbook (South Korea)

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, Ji Oliicer at the observation post dlrects an artillery strike Sgt Joel O White drills a hole ln a rock for blasting 1 ,Q . H gf it J ' gf 'Qs A ifigifxgf K t , A: ,sf 4k,ag3,3y K 1 M' , - , ' if - ggi ? kff' 1-in A ai? ,L W-.,,,f s - gb, -fs is - 1:9 g -f -. feig- ' ' .lgf..'Q : ,gh a ft, ' QQ ' NJ as 5. L .f i i if 5? is -if Wrs nigga, no .sfalk MM, . W , Q nifdgxz ' v 5, pw if it -iii: A ,aa safe A t f 'f ': 'Q' .4 -1 ' Y- s g: E Al 3 L .I -1. is As night fell on 27 November. the first order of busi- ness Was to set up defense lines. This was a normal pre- caution. Colonel Don Faith had recently arrived from Hamhung with the lst Battalion of the 32nd Infantry and the Marines planned a continuation of the north- Ward drive the following day. But the Marines had warned Faith that on the day before several Chinese prisoners captured in the rugged, mountainous terrain around the reservoir had revealed the presence of three A 15th AAA multiple 50 vehicle opens up on an antitank gun in the hills. ll. to RJ Sfc. Clarence Rathel nibbles a candy bar while Sgt. William S. Duval holds his rifle at the ready .

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fresh divisions operating in that area. Their mission, the prisoners said, was to sever the American supply route. With this in mind, Colonel Faith placed his companies in a perimeter which lay across a road facing north Qsee diagram AJ with the right flank bent south to face mountains that loomed black in the east. As the late afternoon shadows lengthened, the companies cracked through the brittle ground and dug in their positions, slashing fields of fire through some scrub brush on the Engineer unit repairs a bridge on the main supply route. Engineer operates bulldozer as he cuts out roadway leading to his Com- mand Past. 7. VJ' 2,0 VA, T' if Vs 5. ' A WV 1 Q,'!JV5v' all li K .. JM - YV AWN ? , Vli i 15.23 -,A K ',,i' ' QA - l 41 S- ,vezw VV ' .V iff V . ,, er V ' SVVJVEVVVAV, , A: VV,, .Hg ,V V . .. VV, YHEQH V t 'lf' VA -X ' . VV A V igilifa ..: V.ga? ,Z ,, ,LV si g. V .. .A , Vsgi , Lf- ., We -f V.. . ff away-e.sVVif'. A .Q ' . . 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