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China's 39th Corps Foot Cavalry attacks

Col. Percy W. Thompson, one of the apparently few competent staff officers in Eighth Army, briefed I Corps headquarters that the Cav might be fighting China when they committed to attack Unsan. His alert was received with disbelief, and indifference. China's 39th Corps was about to make an appearance that would be more difficult to ignore.

Unsan

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CCF 39th Corps, November, 1950

Pursues fleeing UN forces past destroyed truck column near Unsan.

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