Yes! And millions more Koreans would be starving and enslaved.
Allies Battling Hard To Slow Red Tide
Retreat route to Pusan is MenacedArtillery Slams Shells at Communists: Fighter-Bombers help.
Tokyo, AP
Allied troops fought desperately today to slow the Communist tide rolling toward the heart of South Korea and menacing the U.S. Eighth army's retreat route to the old Pusan beachhead
Two United Nations battalions attacked a Red Korean force two miles south of battle-wrecked Wonju road hub abandoned Monday to the Reds.
An Allied regiment counterattacked stron communist forces six miles southwest of Wonju.
Allied artillery slammed shells into the Reds and fighter-bombers roared down in close support.
Field dispatches said the fighting still was raging shortly before midnight Tuesday.
The counterattack six miles southwest of Wonju was in the area where the Reds gained a half mile Monday and Allied forces later recovered most of the ground.
Action on the western front south of abandoned Osan was limited to patrols.
But army intelligence reported the Chinese were building up a massive attacking force around Osan. at least two Chinese armies -- possibly 80,000 or more troops -- were spotted in the area.
The Eighth army continued its retreat to the southeast. Vanguards of the fast moving Red forces pressed close on the heels of rearguard troops.
Two patrol fights flared 13 and 14 miles southeast of Osan. These attacks put the Reds only 50 road miles --less by air-- from the Kum river where the U.S. 24th division began its tragic defense of Taejon last July.
The Korean Communists, bulwarked now by hundreds of thousands of Chinese who entered the war when the Allies almost had it won, were retracing their route of summer conquest into South Korea.Communist forces rushed Tuesday into the Osan area, massing for the continuing pursuit of the fleeing Eighth army. The Reds moved artillery southward across the Han river at Seoul.
An Eighth army spokesman said one force estimated at 10,000 troops was spotted near Osan.