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The United States Air Force in Korea, 1950–1953, rev. ed. (Office of the Chief of Air Force History, 1983), official US Air Force history Hermes, Walter G. (1992), Truce Tent and Fighting Front , Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, ISBN 0-16-035957-0 , archived from the original on 2009-02-24 , retrieved 2012-01-03
Combat ended on 27 July 1953 with the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement, which allowed the exchange of prisoners and created a 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) wide Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) along the frontline, with a Joint Security Area at Panmunjom. The conflict caused more than 1 million military deaths and an estimated 2-to-3 million civilian ...
In Mortal Combat: Korea 1950–1953, 1991, ISBN 0-688-10079-1 Captured by History: One Man's Vision of Our Tumultuous Century , 1997, ISBN 0-312-15490-9 Novels
The numerically superior North Korean force destroyed isolated resistance from the 38,000 South Korean soldiers on the front before it began moving steadily south. [2] F-80Cs of the 8th Fighter-Bomber Group in Korea during the summer of 1950. To prevent South Korea's collapse, the United Nations Security Council voted to
The Battle of Chuncheon (Korean: 춘천 전투) was one of a series of coordinated attacks beginning on 25 June 1950 that marked the beginning of the Korean War This article about the Korean War is a stub .
Paik Sun-yup (Korean: 백선엽; Hanja: 白善燁; RR: Baek Seon-yeop; November 23, 1920 – July 10, 2020) was a Republic of Korea Army four-star general who became the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1959 to 1960.
The Second Phase Offensive (25 November – 24 December 1950) or Second Phase Campaign (Chinese: 第二次战役; pinyin: Dìèr Cì Zhànyì) of the Korean War was an offensive by the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (PVA) against United Nations Command (U.S./UN) forces, most of which were soldiers of South Korea and the United States.
The Battle of Chochiwon was an early engagement between United States and North Korean forces during the Korean War, taking place in the villages of Jeonui-myeon and Jochiwon (then spelt 'Chochiwon') in western South Korea on July 10–12, 1950. After three days of intense fighting, the battle ended in a North Korean victory.