Numbers, stats on American war dead Go COMBAT INFANTRYMAN BADGEDisplay Recognition Go COMBAT MEDICAL BADGEDisplay Recognition Go COMBAT SUPPORT IN KOREA Go COMMON MYTHSABOUT THE PURPLE HEART MEDAL Go CUBAN READINESS FORCE(Operation Mongoose) DD-214 SPN/SPD POLICY Go DECEMBER 7TH 1941 SERVICE ...
Cold War North Korean Armor 323 Fire Support Vehicle with 76mm F-22 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Likely 1970s-Present) Light Self-Propelled Gun/Assault Gun – Unknown Number Built The KPA (Korean People’s Army), the standing military of North Korea, has a very peculiar ...
During the grim opening weeks of the Korean War, while American forces fought desperately in defense of the Pusan Perimeter, General MacArthur was already conceiving a bold stroke that would crush the North Korean People’s Army. He planned an amphibious assault behind North Korean lines at Inchon...
The combat task force was named after its commander, Lt. Col. Charles B. Smith. The task force was outnumbered almost 10 to 1 in that first fight, called the Battle of Osan. American Soldiers attempted to stop nearly 5,000 advancing enemy soldiers and 34 Soviet-built tanks. The result ...
but it was in the Korean War that both – particularly the helicopter – came into their own, and asArmyMaj. William G. Howard wrote, “fundamentally changed the Army’s medical-evacuation doctrine.” Helicopter medevacs transported more than 20,000 casualties during the war. One pilot, 1st ...
Chung Yong Wook discusses Communist themes in “Leaflets, and the nature of the Korean War as Psychological Warfare,” The Review of Korean Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2004: Propaganda of the nature of the war, and the cause and objective support by North Korea (The invasion of American Im...
Another Chinese-American war indeed was avoided. There was a sophisticated yet crucial reason for this which should be highlighted. Beijing and Washington regarded each other as enemies. But it seems that each side was willing to count on the consistent, “limited rationality” of the other to ...
When American troops arrived in Korea, they encountered two fierce enemies, the North Korean Army and the effects of a brutal winter. Ten percent of all casualties during the war succumbed to weather conditions. Adaptability, lack of training and deficiencies in equipment issue caused many unnecessa...
TheYalta Conferencein 1945 agreed that Soviet and American troops would occupy Korea after the war.The country was divided at the 38th parallel and in 1948 theSoviet Unionset up a People's Democratic Republic in North Korea. At the same time the United States helped establish the Republic of...
Some women feel deeply validated when some politician goes on the call for mothering to be defined as a vital contribution to the nation’s war effort, because warfare has been imagined by many to be the quintessentially public and national activity. (Maneuvers: The International Politics of Mili...