The Battle of Chosin Reservoir took place in the harsh and freezing winter of 1950, when the People’s Volunteer Army (PVA) of China entered the war to counter the presence of United Nations Command (UNC) troops in North Korea. The Chinese force, numb
September 1945 - One of the penalties imposed on Japan at the end of World War II was the loss of Korea. A precursor of the causes of this mid-century Korean War was the decision to divide (rather than unify) Korea along the 38th parallel. Soviet U
Above: Somewhere in North Korea, 1951. Marines from 1st Battalion, 7th Marines (1/7). Carls, Laurie, Hook, Trenholme, Wittsack, Ulmer, and Welsh. From the Ronald H. Welsh Collection (COLL/5677) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division,
The life-size bronze statue is called The Uphill Battle, and Staff Sergeant Reckless, the mare it depicts, was a United States Marine. The 10-foot-tall, 1,200-pound equine monument sits at the end of a corridor of trees in the Semper Fidelis Memoria
On 25 June 1950, seven divisions of highly trained and well-equipped North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel, the boundary between North and South Korea, initiating a full-scale invasion of South Korea. The North Korean People's Army (NKPA),
Map of Korean war from May 1950 to July 1953, showing: Chinese and communist forces (Soviet Union) (light red), North Korean forces (red)bSouth Korean, US and United Nations forces (green).
