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OCR Page 1 of 9SEC. 3.4.02 June Date 13, 128/81
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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
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