Taking Back Vital Ground KW (id:#67159)

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P'ungnyuri-Gang Inlet, Changjin Reservoir, North Korea 1950-11-28 (6 others)

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Although the 3rd Battalion command post had been overrun during the night, and Lt. Col. Reilly was wounded, he was evacuated to the battalion medical post and by the morning was able to give orders to organize a counterattack to take back the vital high ground lost during the previous night's onslaught, which very nearly wiped out his command. The enemy could not be allowed to retain such dominant ground come nightfall, which would give them another chance from even better ground to finish off the Polar Bears, as the regiment was known. Fortunately for the 3rd Battalion for some reason the Chinese had failed to destroy the guns of A Battery whose position they had overrun in the night and whose ground they now gave up as they retreated into the greater safety of the higher heights of the surrounding hills, fearful of UN airpower.

Defender: CPVA (4th Company, 2nd Battalion, 239th Regiment, 80th Division, 27th Chinese People's Volunteers Army Corps)  

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