Seventh Infantry Division - Yearbook (South Korea)

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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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.w.4i ' ff' ,ff me A 'NHC hifi' Q 'L M Pfc. Samuel K. Solomon, Jr. writes a letter to the folks hack home. Sgt. James E. Davis HJ fuses an explosive as Cpl. Henry Gorzel places it in hole and connects wires. hills. Colonel Faith dropped back and set up his com- mand post among a few farmhouses in a small valley less than a thousand yards behind the front lines. It got dark early. For the first hour or two after dark, the night was punctuated with the dull thud of bursting shells around the perimeter. The forward observers had not completed the registration of artillery and mortar defense fires be- fore dark and had to finish up the job. Then it grew quiet. For another hour or two, until after 2100, the hills were silent. Back at the command post, Colonel Faith had called a meeting of the company commanders and it was in progress. Lieutenant Cecil G. Smith, executive officer of Com- pany A, was quietly checking his outfit which had dug in near the road. Then all hell started breaking loose. General Douglas MacArthur prepares to board plane during one of his many trips to the fighting front.