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The Battle of Heartbreak Ridge (Korean: 단장의 능선 전투; Hanja: 斷腸의 稜線 戰鬪; French: Bataille de Crèvecœur), also known as the Battle of Wendengli (Chinese: 文登里战斗; pinyin: Wéndēnglǐ Zhàndòu), was a month-long battle in the Korean War which took place between 13 September and 15 October 1951.
More than 36,000 American troops died during the Korean War (1950–1953). [8] As of 2024, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) describes more than 7,400 Americans as "unaccounted for" from the Korean War. [9] The United States Armed Forces estimates that 5,300 of these troops went missing in North Korea. [10]
South Korean soldiers walk among the bodies of political prisoners executed near Daejon, July 1950 Civilians killed during a night battle near Yongsan, August 1950. There were numerous atrocities and massacres of civilians throughout the Korean War committed by both sides, starting in the war's first days.
By the summer of 1951, the Korean War had reached a stalemate as peace negotiations began at Kaesong. The opposing armies faced each other across a line which ran from east to west, through the middle of the Korean peninsula , located in hills a few miles north of the 38th Parallel in the central Korean mountain range.
Operation Glory was an American effort to repatriate the remains of United Nations Command casualties from North Korea at the end of the Korean War.The Korean Armistice Agreement of July 1953 called for the repatriation of all casualties and prisoners of war, and through September and October 1954 the Graves Registration Service Command received the remains of approximately 4,000 casualties.
The UN May–June 1951 counteroffensive was a military operation performed by the United Nations Command (UN) during the Korean War launched in response to the Chinese spring offensive of April-May 1951. It was the final large-scale offensive of the war that saw significant territorial changes.
This Is Korea is a 1951 American documentary film about the Korean War. It was directed by John Ford with a screenplay by James Warner Bellah . It was released theatrically by Republic Pictures .
Eliot A. Cohen writes that the retreat from Chosin was a UN victory which inflicted such heavy losses on the PVA 9th Corps that it was put out of action until March 1951. [225] Paul M. Edwards, founder of the Center for the Study of the Korean War, [226] draws parallels between the battle at Chosin and the Dunkirk evacuation.