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Washington, n. C.
6 August 1951
JOINT DAILY SITREP NO. 317
(Maps attached)
From 0700/3 (EST) to 0700/6 (EST)
From 2100/3 (Korea) to 2100/6 (Korea)
1. Weather:
Scattered to overcast low, middle, and high clouds throughout the
period. Forecast: Scattered low, middle, and high clouds over all
Korea except in the southwest, where they will be broken. Visibility
six miles. (FEAF) (SECRET)
2. Enemy Situation:
Hostile groups of up to battalion size offered stubborn resistance
in the western and central sectors and counterattacked sharply west of
Yonchon against 1st US Cavalry Division units. Enemy mortar and
artillery fire that fell on UN positions across the front showed a
marked increase. An unidentified aircraft dropped eight 120-mm.
mortar shells five miles southwest of Chorwon on 5 August. Three
minefields were encountered in the eastern sectors. Air observed
tank traps and antitank ditches filled in, or being filled in, 10 miles
northwest of Yonchon® It also observed tracks of tanks or SP guns
leading into the woods in the same area. (FECOM) (SECRET)
3. United Nations Situation:
GROUND:
a. General: Friendly patrols advanced four to six miles
across the Imjin River in the west and up to seven miles on the east
coast. The 25th Canadian Brigade was attached to the 1st US Cavalry
Division, and the Turkish Brigade was relieved by the 15th Regiment
of the 3rd US Infantry Division in Chorwon, and then moved to positions
between Chorwon and Kumhwa. (FECOM) (SECRET)
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
DOD Directive 5100.30, June 18, 1979
2/28/81
By NLT- HLZNARS, Date
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