Seventh Infantry Division - Yearbook (South Korea)

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' M A I .,, . Wearv after working to clear the road of mines and booby traps. as the enemy rushed down the hill. Caught in the deadly crossfire, the Reds were cut to pieces and finally re- treated back up the side of the hill. Campbell wiped blood from his face and got set for a repeat performance but it was an hour or two before the Reds tried again. Back at the command post, Colonel Faith received orders to abandon this X Corps attack and withdraw and consolidate his forces for more cohesive action against the enemy. At 0300 hours on 29 November, Colonel Faith's executive officer went forward to the battle-locked companies with orders from Colonel Mac- Lean to prepare at once to pull out and join the rest of his forces four miles to the south. Because of the enemy roadblock which split the two elements of his task force, MacLean ordered Faith to destroy as much equip- ment as possible, keeping only enough trucks to haul out the wounded, and head south. To provide protection for these trucks, which had checkers while awaiting orders io move H .nil N, - Nami Sgt. Robert G. Handschumacher and Cpl. Mullin T. Hull relax over a game of o 1i1Y' r-'Q' W'

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S f f 1 f ii f 2 X. ,LQ V 2, i 'EK 135' Tw fx R .Y ,K Y. . '?' x X Members of UN troops baffle eounieratfacks on rocky mountain slopes on the west central from in Korea. been converted into emergency ambulances, Faith or- dered two companies to provide flank security by pre- ceding the company along the high ground that paral- leled the road on both sides. Because Captain Seeber, Commander of Company C, had been wounded in the leg the day before, he instructed one of his platoon lead- ers, Lieutenant James O. Mortrude, to lead this flanking company. For an hour before dawn, Mortrude and the rest of his men stumbled and slipped along the icey hill- sides east of the road. fSee diagram., Across the road on the other snow-swept slope, Company B was main- taining the same vigil. Between them, the groaning trucks rolled down the road, unseen in the bitter cold darkness. The column moved southward without enemy opposition until, at the first gray signs of dawn, it reached a point where the road followed the shoreline of the reservoir and turned northeast to circle a frigid finger of ice. The Chinese roadblock was at the end of x if gs? gy L, IW., my gg: n ff ig. P W . , Q ' V A Q W X' -if 2 v J e ie s x. Medical aids of the 71-h U. S. Inf. Div. rush up hill in Korea to carry aid to wounded Americans.