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SEC. 3.4.02 June Date 13, 128/81 I 1 Security Information Washington, D. C. E.O. Directive NARS, 17 December 1951 JOINT DAILY SITREP NO. 409 DOD (Maps attached) By From 0700/14 (EST) to 0700/17 (EST) From 2100/14 (Korea) to 2100/17 (Korea) 1. Weather: Weather during the period was generally fair with scattered low clouds over most sectors during the mornings, becoming broken later on. Visibility unrestricted except in snow showers. Minimum temperature for battle area was 15 degrees; maximum 35 degrees. Weather forecast to remain the same. (FEAF) (SECRET) 2. Enemy Situation: An at tack by two companies forced UN elements to withdraw to the MLR north of Munsan on 14 December, and company-size probing attacks were made against Turkish Brigade positions northeast of Chorwon on the same day. Smaller probing attacks were made against other UN positions across the front, and enemy activity decreased slightly as the period closed. Enemy tanks or SP guns were observed west and northwest of Chorwon. Mines dam- aged four UN tanks northwest of Kumhwa. An unidentified single-engine air- craft, flying from north to south, strafed and dropped one bomb behind 24th US Infantry Division lines southeast of Kumsong on the morning of 14 December. The adjusted total of vehicle sightings for 13-16 December is 2, 812, of which 1, ,984 were southbound. (FECOM) (SECRET) 3. United Nations Situation: ARMY: a. General: ROK forces attacked and occupied an objective 10 miles north of Munsan on 14 December, but later withdrew under attack by 2 enemy companies. Elsewhere across the front, UN forces repulsed small enemy probing attacks and continued to engage scattered squad- to company- size groups in daily patrol clashes. UN artillery was active in firing on hostile personnel and gun targets. The 45th US Infantry Division was relieved from attachment to the US XVI Corps and assigned to the Eighth US Army effective 170900 (KT). The 180th US Infantry Regiment and supporting artillery (of the 45th US Division) passed to operational control of the 3d US Infantry Division at 131151 (KT). Elements of the 180th Regiment relieved elements of the 8th Cavalry Regiment in the line west of Chorwon. Elements of the 8th Cavalry Security Information