The article focuses on the Eighth Army's commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice. Formerly an Army service component command, the Eight Army is presently responsible for the Mission Command for a warfighting combined joint task force, which it is able to execute through...
Sino–Korean relationsKim Il-sungThe Anti-Japanese United Army, originally a CCP-led armed force, retreated to the Soviet Union during the later phase of the War of Resistance against Japan due to the deteriorating situation and the loss of contact with the CCP Central Committee and CCP ...
Army commander GEN Walton H. Walker was unveiled in late June beside the Eighth Army headquarters at Yongsan Garrison, South Korea. Walker, the first Eighth Army commander during the Korean War, is esteemed for inspiring his outnumbered and outgunned soldiers to hold the line at the Pusan ...
TOKYO, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- 100-year-old Mitsushige Maeda, the first Japanese man who joined the Chinese Eighth Route Army during the World War II, told Xinhua recently about his story before the 72nd anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in the war and called for reflection upon ...
Conventional wisdom often describes the Army's soldiers and leaders during the opening stages of the Korean War as unready and unprepared. Thomas Hanson's Combat Ready? questions this paradigm. He contends it is "unfair to condemn the troops of the Eighth Army for the reverses of the summer...
Most long-service professionals had not seen such hectic activity since the days of American mobilization for World War II. Despite the myriad obstacles confronting Eighth Army units as they progressed toward the final goals, it is beyond dispute that those units did progress. The problem, which ...
Dark Moon: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean WarCrerar, Scot
Eighth Route Army, larger of the two major Chinese communist forces that fought the Japanese from 1937 to 1945. The Eighth Route Army also engaged in political and propaganda work, helping to increase communist support among the populace. The army grew f