When the Chinese took over the task of looking after most POWs from the North Koreans in the spring and summer of 1951 a variant of this Lenient Policy was applied against UN captives. It would be explained to prisoners that instead of being treated as war criminals, which they were, ...
This book could not have written without the patient assistance of the staff of the following archives and libraries: the British Library; the Imperial War Museum; the Labour History and Archives Centre, Manchester; the National Archives, Kew; the National Archives and Records Administration, ...
Under the rule of People's Army, they were mobilized for the itinerant troupes of the People's Army and forced to sing and dance for the North Korean army. When the South Korean Army recovered the capital, they were accused and humiliated as 'commies' for their past records. They were...
Growing up, Meyers' three daughters knew he had been injured in the war. But like many veterans, he never talked much about it. It was only in the past decade or so that he opened up to them. They persuaded him to pursue a Purple Heart. "We're awfully excited," said h...
aAt the United Nations\' prisoner-of-war camp at Pusan, prisoners are assembled in one of the camp compounds. The camp contains both North Korean and Chinese Communist prisoners. April 1951. Gahn, State Dept. (USIA) 在联合国\ ‘战俘营在釜山,囚犯在其中一种阵营化合物中被装配。 阵营包含北韩...
Korean War A remnant from World War II when the Soviet Union, in 1945, wrested control of the Korean peninsula from Japanese control north of the 38th parallel with the United States in the south. By 1948, with Cold War tensions rampant, the peninsula was separated into two halves, North ...
Note: This article has been reproduced in part by the Singapore Ministry of Education as a reference document in their curriculum package to be used in the study of the Korean War by their students. In May 2018, images from this article were used in a book and a set of CDs on the ...
Korean War. A year later the agency sent Unknown X-14682 to the lab for testing. Using dental records, anthropological analysis, mitochondrial DNA analysis and circumstantial evidence, investigators were able to determine in September of last year that the unknown remains were those of Corporal ...
A video was made public Tuesday for the first time of the scene of a 1944 massacre by Japanese troops of Korean women during World War II.The video adds to the existing documentary evidence that the Japanese military shot 30 Korean girls to death in the
This is part II of a four-part chronology of those killed during the Korean War. When reading this article please keep in mind, as in Part I, that these numbers are only U.S. deaths during the war. UN and ROK deaths are not included as part of this series. ...