War: Korean War.
Alright, this war is a little different because technically, technically, technically, it's still going on. Now after the Japanese surrendered Korea to both the Soviet Union and the US after WWII both countries set up a government in the Koreas as they were, so USSR set up a communist nation while the US set up South Korea as a capitalist nation. North Korea, led by admins granddaddy, Kim il Sung was getting a lot of support from the USSR. Tanks, planes, weapons and what not. Both sides wanted to unite but the North wanted to unite as a communist nation, the South as a capitalist state
North Korean forces cross border with South Korea. North Korean Peoples Army, NKPA, numbers approximately 135,000 men, Republic of Korea, ROK, Army contains 98,000 soldiers. On June 25, 1950. Stalin told North Korea to invade and that China would send reinforcement. Three days later, the North Koreans take Seoul. UN condemns the attack and call a meeting for the security council. USSR was protesting the fact that Nationalist China and not Communist China was in the security council so they couldn't vote against it
South Korea troops were not as prepared as the North Koreans so they were pushed back. Eventually they're pushed to Inchon. UN sent troops led by Gen Douglas MacArthur. Okay now this was after WWII, no one wanted to go to war, but then the US didn't want there to be more Communist nations, because they
had this insane idea called the Domino Effect. What it basically was that if one, hold on, I'm really goddamn drunk, i've been feeling ****** and having a bad day, just give me an hour.
Okay so domino effect, was the belief that If one nation falls to communism, the surrounding nations would do so as well.
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When the NK, can I say NK for north korea and SK for the other? Yes okay thanks, so the NK army pushed south, and more and more refugees started moving south more as well. NK took Inchon, and kept going south. Now the UN troop arrived while the NK troops had pushed all the way to Pusan, an area southeast of Korea. Now the US troops landed in Pusan where the South Koreans were barely holding their own. US troops fought against an overwhelming amount of NK troops, since the main force had not arrived. Not wanting it to be pushed back to sea, MacArthur ordered an amphibian assault to the Inchon. However, he had planned three different occasions but had to be scrapped as the troops he had prepared needed to be moved to help defend Pusan Perimeter. Now he finally decided to use U.S. Army 's 7th Infantry Division for the assault. Now MacArthur knew the South Koreans really didn't like the government that the US put in place, and thought if he didn't push the NK troops back, most SK troops would not hold the line. Inchon was dangerous, tricky, and quite a difficult terrain to overcome.
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F4 Corsair above a naval group.
F4 Corsair above a naval group.
See MacArthur gave no ***** to what his advisors said and basically went forward knowing he needed a decisive victory. Now the Chinese warned the North Koreans to fortify Inchon because they studied MacArthur's tactics and knew he would attack from Inchon, I don't think they had enough man power, time or supplies but MacArthur's UN troops landed and took the city. In a few days, they were able to Seoul. They had cut off the NK troops and those at the Pusan perimeter were being pushed by UN, and SK troops. Yeah the Aussies helped too. Jesus alright yeah I remember you too Aussies, you and all the commonwealth helped in this war too, mentioned.
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No this isn't Dresden, on October 19, 1950 Pyongyang falls to UN forces having successfully pushed north of the 38th parallel. The push from Inchon gave UN and SK troops the necessary help to begin pushing back NK troops.
Now, MacArthur had word from that the Chinese would intervene, but when they took the NK capital nothing from the chinese. The UN said that it would leave Korea communist free. So UN and SK troops headed north towards the Yalu River.
Now remember Stalin? Yeah remember earlier I said he gave permission to Kim Il Sung to invade the south and China would send reinforcements? Well secretly the Chinese were massing huge numbers of troops on the opposite side of the Yalu river. Let's just say superior training and firepower don't do jack **** when a massive force rushes you. You can fire and kill hundreds but you're going to run out of ammo eventually or be overwhelmed. And that's what happened, with increased opposition, UN offensive stalls and then collapses. Chinese troops push UN forces back across 38th parallel and capture Southern capital of Seoul.
Chosin reservoir, now fighting was miserable on both sides, especially in this snowy terrain. In this 1950 battle, 15,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines, alongside another 15,000 UN soldiers, fought through a force of 120,000 Chinese soldiers to reach the sea some 78 miles away. They were surrounded by the chinese.
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Now, when MacArthur talked to congress about the involvement of the Chinese, he did request for dropping nuclear bombs against the chinese. This would have caused WWIII and Truman eventually fired him in 1951, 6 months after asking for the bomb to be dropped. This made the public mad.
Thats how much the chinese pushed UN and US troops.
Something interesting to note was the first jet dogfights. After WWII, US and USSR techs got ahold of German scientist and grabbed jet tech and made their own jets.
Operation Thunderbolt, UN troops went on the offensive on January 25, 1951. They pushed north against the chinese.
Okay now, Truman dismissed MacArthur, i know i'm missing a lot of info, sorry, but heres the run down, command was given to Matthew Ridgway. He collected the UN troops and pushed them north of the 38th parallel.
Alright this is the part that gets repetitive because from 1951 to 1953, the war was basically a stalemate.
Chinese troops pushed, get stopped and are pushed back. UN troops push north, are eventually stopped and pushed back to their original positions.
UN bombers bombing power plants, munition supplies, and troops, however bitter dog fighting in the air destroyed many bombers that the US air force were forced to stop unaccompanied daylight bombing campaigns and resorted to night bombings.
If this plays right, then it will show how crappy the situation was, both sides dug trenches, tanks were used as mobile artillery, small gains were made and lost.
Here some Aussies because I don't give them enough love.
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Something to note was that a lot of the equipment used in this war was leftovers from WWII, T34s and Shermans were used against each other, battleships and rifles from WWII also used.
Eventually both sides agreed to a ceasefire and both sides had been negotiating it since July 1953 to1954. However on July 27, 1953 a Peace Treaty signed at Panmunjom stopped hostilities the 38th parallel reset as boundary between communist North and anti communist South. Then both sides negotiate for return of prisoners and eventually returning the dead.
This might not be my good ones, so if i'm wrong, or missing more than usual, please kindly, kindly tell me and I will most likely redo a second part. I honestly haven't been feeling well but I don't want to put my problems on you. Also this war is still technically still going on, since it was just an armistice, not a formal declaration of peace ending the war, hostilities could still erupt any day because of that.
Also I had trouble uploading this on Thursday 25th, 2015, kept giving me problems, I blame admin not wanting me to tell what happened. This has been revised by his moderators.
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