the Eighth Army inJapan. Not until the first weeks of August was theUnited Nations Command(UNC), as MacArthur’s theater forces were redesignated, able to slow the North Koreans and finally stop them at the “Pusan Perimeter,” a line that roughly followed theNakdong Riverand protected the...
By early August, the Allies had been pushed back to the Pusan Perimeter, a defensive line around an area in the southeastern corner of the Korean peninsula. However, throughout August and into September, the Americans and their counterparts fought off attacks from the North Koreans and prevented...