Aug. 4, 1963 - A Communist North Korean raiding party, using whistles like pheasant calls to guide their attack, hit an American outpost with a heavy barrage of grenades in a two-hour battle in the demilitarized zone today. (Pictured below are North Korean troops). Thirteen American soldiers repulsed an estimated seven Communists in what front-line officers said was the longest engagement of eight days of fresh action along the Korean front. Three American cavalrymen suffered minor wounds from grenade fragments. There were no known Communist casualties. The action took place 1,000 yards east of where a Communist patrol last week ambushed 3 American cavalrymen in a jeep, killing 2 and wounding the third. The spot is 13 miles from Panmunjom, where the U.N. Command warned the North Koreans yesterday that U.S. forces would retaliate against any more attacks like the one today. The North Koreans brushed aside the warning.
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