Seventh Infantry Division - Yearbook (South Korea)

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W, if GV Sgt. Harry E. Donohue checks with an elderly Korean through an interpreter icy. Infantrymen take cover on the south bank of the Soyang River. The bloody battle raged through the night but when dawn broke on 28 November, Faith's battalion was still in place. In Company A, Lieutenant Raymond C. Dench- field was wounded in the knee and knocked out of ac- tion. The company commander, Captain Edward B. Scullion rushed to take temporary charge of Dench- field's platoon. A Commie grenade fell at his feet and Scullion Was killed instantly. Colonel Faith ordered his assistant S-3, Captain Robert F. Haynes, to take com- mand of the strategically important road position. Cap- tain Haynes rushed toward the bullet-riddled road from the farmhouse command headquarters but before he reached the battle scene, infiltrators lurking in the dark- Pvt. Marion E. Searcy rests in his foxhole between a soldier's two best friends. his rifle and shovel. Tankmen take a break in Korea. 11 if S 3

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ness chopped him down. The line was ablaze with gun- fire and alive with Reds who had broken through and were active behind them. When word was rushed back to Faith that Haynes too was dead he telephoned the Company's executive officer, Lt. Smith, and ordered him to take command of che Company. It's your baby now, the Colonel told him. That was to become a byword during the bitter Chosin Reservoir fight. Officer after officer fell under the withering Red fire. During that first night, casual- ties were alarmingly high and a disproportionately high number of them were officers and noncoms. But Faith continued to send new officers into the line as replace- ments fell before the Red onslaught. The most critical loss of the night was a prominent knob along the bound- ary of the two companies east of the road. CDiagram A., As dawn broke, Lieutenant Richard H. Moore led his platoon in a counterattack and it fought back to the base of the knob. Several times during the day, how- ever, the fanatical Chinese-many of them firing Ameri- can-made weapons--drove the platoon back. Moore screamed for mortar fire and got it and the air around the knoll was alive with flying steel. Bodies piled up at the base of the important knob. During the morning, carrier-based Corsairs swept down on the hill to assist Moore in his repeated see-sawing attacks. That afternoon, Colonel MacLean came forward to While members of an Engineer Unit repair bridge, a Korean civilian washes clothes