Dilemma On Ma Po Boulevard KW (id:#64098)

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Seoul, South Korea 1950-09-26 (9 others)

Overview:

At 0900, Captain Stanford's E Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, was following in trace of Captain Groff's F Company. Both companies were loaded for bear and had armor support to boot. Fox had orders to clear a road junction on Ma Po Boulevard, after which it would proceed up the left-hand fork. Meanwhile, Easy Company would go up the right-hand fork. Together they would make a two-pronged sweep of the area to the point where each of their respective roads crossed the railroad tracks, here the two companies would then reconnect with one another for an assault on Deoksu Palace, the day's objective for the battalion. Orders from LtCol Sutter, in command of the 2nd Battalion, were to 'move out fast and keep going.' He stressed this because there would be elements of the 2nd Battalion KMC moving up in trace of the two companies to mop up behind them, since they could "tell the Cowboys from the Indians," as COL Puller commanding the 1st Marines remarked of them.

Defender: North Korean (Seoul City Regiment, 78th Independent Infantry Regiment and the 25th Infantry Brigade, with 111th Security Regiment, 513th Artillery Regiment, 10th Railroad Regiment, 19th Antiaircraft Regiment, and 17th Rifle Division)  

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