Salt Lake Telegram | 1951-03-01 | Page 1 | Marines Take Key Height with Bayonets

v f f f vc V 4 i i f yA 1 4 Wi 4 Y f M t i. i V VL 4 L r i x j i J Yank Howitzer Pou Pounds Red Positions Positrons Snow flies flics up as Yank artillerymen fire their I mm howitzer at enemy positions along Korea I battlefront Artillery was cutting a hi big swath In Communist line lino Thursday ahead HI of U. U X N. attack Marines e Take Key Height With Bayonets WITH U. U S. S MARINES Korea March 1 American IP-American IP American Marines stormed the height above Hoeng- Hoeng song Thursday against bitter Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese resistance and took their first objective at bayonet point The attack was against two points of the mountain spur that dominates the key road to from the west The assault jumped off at 2 am a.m. 10 am a.m. MST Wednesday At am a.m. one Marine battalion battalion battalion bat bat- had seized the first crest of Cloverleaf hill hm the height just west of the T river and the nearest high point to itself Turn Attack North By 11 am a.m. the Marines h had d taken the second crest and shifted their attack to the northwest to toward toward toward to- to ward Hill HiU where the main enemy defenders were believed to tobe tobe tobe be dug in This was on the right flank of the attack Two vo miles to the left west another Marine assault force jumped off against a much more formidable h height e i g h t t- t the wooded crest of Hill which which rises 1500 feet from the valley floor American possession of all the high hig-h ground west of would make it impossible for the Chinese to hold the important road town The Reds captured it 2 weeks ago when they shattered the South Korean Eighth division and drove one regiment of the theU U U. S. S Second division ision back to Series of Ridges The hill hm is a yellow bald series of ridges rising above the river All along the top the Chinese were dug in trenches For three days they had successfully beaten off attacks by South Koreans Nearly Chinese were killed in the storming of Cloverleaf hill More tore were killed in the assault on the left flank The day was brilliant and bitter cold The troops spent Wednesday night in advanced positions and were exposed to cold winds and below below- freezing temperatures Some of the men frosted last December at reservoir suffered recurrence of their frostbites frostbites frostbites frost frost- bites and were sent limping to I the rear