Daejeon

Once he realized that the North Korean People's Army was a formidable force, MacArthur estimated to the Joint Chiefs of Staff that to halt and hurl back the North Koreans would require four to four and a half full-strength infantry divisions, an airborne regimental combat team, and an armored group of three medium tank battalions and reinforcing artillery.

After the defeat of Task Force Smith, General Smith employed the 34th and 21st Infantries in additional delaying actions against the advance of the North Korean 3rd and 4th Divisions along the corridor that ran south of Osan toward Taejon.

Fighting occurred at Pyeongtaek, Chonan, Cheongui, and Chochiwon.

Dean sought to delay the enemy's approach to the Kum River to support the ROK forces' left flank that was retreating through the central mountains of South Korea.

The trackless mountains of the Taebaek Range effectively separated the east coast of Korea below the 38th Parallel from the rest of the country.

Mid-July 1950, General Dean's 24th Division continued as the primary U.S. Army fighting force in Korea.

Taejon, located 100 miles south of Seoul, served as an important road and communications center.

The Kum River makes a semicircle to the north around Taejon that constitutes a protective moat.

Well, talking to people whose, um, we weren't sure about, we turned their passes around.

Do you remember me, um, screaming and running, chasing you down the, we, we're in, um, in Seoul in 2011? And again, this is someone we'd never met before, and, um- Daejeon.

Daejeon, sorry, D- Daejeon, 2011.

And I bumped into her, and I thought, "Who on earth is that? Who on earth is that?" Had a quick look at her pass, and I went running round to come and grab you and pull you back because it was Valerie Brisco Hooks.

Valerie Brisco Hooks.

I don't know who she is, but she's somebody.

I think in, I think this was in, uh, Russia in 2003.

Daejeon.

The ROK order of battle, if such it could be called, consisted of a regiment and four infantry divisions ranged from left to right across the peninsula, the 17th Regiment and the 1st, 7th, 6th, and 8th Divisions.

The remaining divisions were dispersed for purposes of internal security, the Capital at Seoul, the 2nd at Cheongju and Taejon, the 3rd at Taegu, and the 5th at Kwangju.

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But it was the last naval effort of any consequence by an enemy strangled in the net of the UN blockade.

On land, the NKPA columns advanced almost at will during the first four days.

Nearly a hundred tanks and as many planes were employed by the two main columns advancing on Seoul, and on 27 June 1950, the ROK seat of government was removed to Taejon while Far East Air Force planes were evacuating United States citizens.

ROK fugitives, winding southward in an endless stream of humanity, choked every road and multiplied the difficulties of the defense.

The other four divisions were scattered about the interior and southern parts of the country.

The headquarters of the Capital Division was located at Seoul, the Second near Taejon, the Third at Taegu, and the Fifth at Kwangju in southwest Korea.

When US armed forces in Korea withdrew from South Korea in nineteen forty-nine, it transferred equipment to the ROK Army sufficient for fifty thousand men.

The weapons of the ROK divisions stationed along the thirty-eighth parallel included the American M-one rifle, thirty caliber carbine, sixty millimeter and eighty-one millimeter mortars, two point three six inch rocket launchers, and the M-three one oh five millimeter howitzer.

Badly outnumbered and without armor, effective anti-tank weapons or air support, the U.S. force was overrun.

The next day, Colonel Smith could assemble only 250 men, half his original force.

On 4 July, General Dean assumed command of USAFIK and established his headquarters at Taejon.

The 34th Infantry, another organic element of Dean's 24th Division, and the rest of the 21st Infantry arrived in Korea during the first week of July.

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