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Washington, D. C.
5 May 1952
JOINT SITREP NO. 496
(Maps attached)
From 0700/01 (EST) to 0700/05 (EST)
From 2100/01 (Korea) to 2100/05 (Korea)
1. Weather:
Multilayered clouds with rain restricted visibility to 1 to 5 miles. Weath-
er began clearing on 4 May. Battle area temperatures ranged from 48 degrees
to 81 degrees. Forecast: Clear skies becoming broken high clouds. Visibility
will be 7 miles or better except on east and south coasts where it will be re-
stricted to 2 to 4 miles in morning haze and fog. Temperatures will range be-
tween 48 degrees to 81 degrees. (FEAF) (SECRET)
2. Enemy Situation:
Two enemy platoons and an enemy company attacked 1st ROK Division
positions near the Imjin River on 2 and 3 May. Elsewhere, smaller hostile
probing attacks were made against UN positions across the front. Noises
from two to four possible enemy tanks were heard northeast of Kumhwa on 2
May. Three North Korean civilians captured near Chorwon reported that they
saw 20g 000 Chinese Communist troops in an assembly area 11 miles north of
Pyonggang and 1,000 Communist troops and full equipment moving west of
this area on 19 April. They also said they observed many tanks moving south
into this same vicinity on 15 April Over 1,000 rounds of mortar and artillery
fire fell on 1st British Commonwealth Division positions on 1 May, and over
1, ,800 rounds fell on 8th ROK Division positions on the same day. The adjusted
total of vehicle sightings for 30 April-4 May is 8, 672, of which 4g 925 were
southbound (FECOM) (SECRET)
3. United Nations Situation:
ARMY:
a General: 1st US Marine Division elements engaged an enemy
company northeast of Panmunjom in a four-hour engagement on 4 May. Other
U.N patrols continued to encounter smaller enemy groups during the four-day
period. UN tanks destroyed and damaged numerous bunkers north of Kumhwa
on 2 May, (FECOM) (SECRET)
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
DOD Directive 5100.30, June 18, 1979
By NLT=
HV
NARS, Date
3/7/81
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