Korean Conflict 19501953

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Korean Conflict 1950-1953
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Peninsula size of Mississippi Indiana
togetherAltitude from sea level to hills and
high mountainsBorders China and what was then
Soviet UnionSea of Japan separates from
JapanWarm water harbors
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Annexed by Japan in 1910During closing days of
WWII Soviets and US divided Korea along 38th
parallelUN resolution called for free elections
and unification
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Instead, war came.1949 after elections in South
Korea, US troops left.Two Koreas threatened
each other.June, 1950 North crossed 38th with
Russian tanks and poured into South
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North Koreans Tanks
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UN Resolution

• That North Korea should retire north of the 38th
  Parallel
• If not, UN would authorize member nations to take
  steps to restore peace to the south
• Russia boycotted the Security Council during
  these votes.
• 19 Member nations contributed to war effort
• US supplied 4/5s of the troops
• MacArthur was put in charge.
• Called Trumans War back in US Congress

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US Troops Defending Pusan

• These unprepared soldiers often fought with the
  possibility of retreat cut off, for the favorite
  enemy tactic was to attack frontally to hold the
  Americans while other columns slipped around the
  flanks to cut off escape. Men who wished to
  avoid capture, then, were forced to drift through
  the mountains, or worse, through those filthy,
  stinking rice paddies which tormented them with
  myriads of stinging, disease-bearing insects and
  which sometimes sucked off their very bootsWhen
  the sun shone, the Korean countryside steamed and
  stank like a giant diaper pail. Reluctantly
  fighting somebody elses war in somebody elses
  land, where the climate was an alternating hell
  of heat and cold and where the people were not
  only generally indifferent to the outcome but
  also inclined to regard the American savior as
  more alien than the northern enemy.
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  Robert Leckie

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Inchon Landing
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Beginning of Chapter 12 Sacrificial Lamb of the
Cold War
"Americans are half-ape, half-human and have long
thick hair all over their body, yes, even their
women grow hair all over their body, just like
female dogs. Their body order is unbelievably
foul and make you sick. They have huge sex organs
about the size of a bang-chi and copulate with
anybody, men and women, including their own
mother and kids. We should not let these animals
in our town and defend Japan to death." My
Japanese school principal, Kapsan, Korea, 1945
My First American Encounter As the US 1st Marine
Division moved to Hamhung from Wonsan and the ROK
I Corps moved out on October 24, 1950, I saw US
soldiers for the first time. One day I was
playing in the street in front of my house when I
spotted two strange looking figures coming over
the hilltop. We stopped playing and watched the
two strangers with some apprehension. We
anticipated some sort of dramatic meeting. Well,
to my disappointment, there were no uplifting
words, no ruffles and flourishes. Apparently
unaware of the peeping eyes focused upon them,
those two pulled down their pants, squatted down
and relieved themselves. Thus, my very first
sight of the Americans was earthy. Up to this
moment, my knowledge of America was based on what
the Japanese taught

• By Young Sik Kim

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Chinese Communist Forcespoured across the Yalu
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Choisin Breakout
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Main Line of Resistance (MLR)
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Static, Trench Warfare

• Hootch behind
• MLR
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• View of Chinese MLR from UN side.

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July 1951 Peace talks began.

• July 1953
• Armistice Signed

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American Losses

• Dead 54,246 (33,629 KIA)
• Wounded 103,248
• MIA 8,142
• Captured 3,746
• Total 169,365

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• Korean Service Ribbon
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  Korean Service Medal