Questions tagged [korean-war]
This tag should be used for the war (1950-1953) between S. Korea and N. Korea, and their respective allies.
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How did the KPA cross the Han River on 28 June 1950?
For those unfamiliar, here's a crude ascii art of what the map looks like:
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What was the composition of a US Half-Track Unit during the Korean War?
For some reason I remembered a conversation with my grandfather that I had at least 25 years ago. I knew he had been in Korea with the US Army and I asked what every young kid asks at some point: &...
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What ship is this in Sasebo, Japan Harbor, Korean War Era?
Identification of Ship in Sasebo, Japan Harbor, Korean War Era from my Flickr page
https://www.flickr.com/photos/photolibrarian/51241341355/in/dateposted-public/
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Can anyone find "War Department General Order No. 207, 3 July 1863" in which "prisoner conduct after capture" was mentioned?
I started following rabbit hole after rabbit hole while I was looking in to the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, and I wound up on the report of the Secretary of Defense’s Advisory Committee ...
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What options were available to MacArthur to prepare for Chinese intervention in the Korean War?
The initial successes of Chinese military in Korean War against high odds can be said to be a major blunder on the part of MacArthur's military leadership. We know that MacArthur did not make ...
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Why did South Korea not go the same way as South Vietnam? [closed]
Currently, democratic South Korea is separated from communist North Korea, while Vietnam is united. These two countries had seemingly similar situations. Their former rulers, Japan and France ...
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During the Korean War, what B-29 crew roles did the abbreviations IVO, CFC, and VC mean?
I was researching a B-29 crash that my grandfather was in during the Korean War, and he was listed as the IVO on the flight. I couldn't find what that abbreviation meant, nor could I find some of the ...
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Why didn't the Chinese attack Hungnam during the evacuation?
The Hungnam evacuation was a notable event during the early years of the Korean War. Retreating to the port of Hungnam from the recent defeat at Chosin Reservoir, UN forces managed to evacuate about ...
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How could someone avoid US military service in the early 1950's?
I have been trying to find information on what could be legitimate deferments for military service during the 50's in the US that don't involve draft dodging. I am a writer and working on a project ...
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How many people were fighting in the North Korean Army in peak strength in the Korean War?
According to wikipedia, there were 266,600 people at peak strength in the Korean Army, they source this from Shrader, Charles R. (1995). Communist Logistics in the Korean War
NKPA strength peaked ...
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Why did the Korean War result in a stalemate?
In the Korean War, the United Nations forces lead by the US held overwhelming military and technological superiority over the Chinese. Even with the initial set back from the Chinese ambush AFTER the ...
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Did American POW’s get manipulated into cooperation in Chinese camps during the Korean War?
In Robert Cialdini’s book “Influence: the psychology of persuasion”, he recounts how during the Korean War, Chinese captors were able to get American POW’s to inform on each other. There are, however, ...
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Did USS Buck (DD-761) send the message “Temper, Temper”?
In a March 26, 2019 Reddit post with 1.1k upvotes, there is a picture with a story as follows (emphasis added).
15 Mar 1952: The Wisconsin receives her first direct hit in her history when one of ...
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Does Bob Hope hold the record for headlining the most USO tours?
Bob Hope entertaining the troops in 1944. Source: Wikipedia
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Multiple sources indicate that Bob Hope headlined 57 USO tours, including Wikipedia and Legacy's article on Bob Hope's USO, ...
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Why did the United States decide to cross over the 38th parallel to North Korea after they attacked South Korea? [closed]
Why did the United States decide to invade North Korea (going across the 38TH parallel) during the Korean War? What did this decision mean to the Americans/ President Truman?
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How did the Chinese Civil War avoid becoming another Korean War?
In light of the recent news the Korean War has been on my mind.
Yet how do we understand the Korean War in the broader regional and global contexts in the aftermath of WWII? Was the Korean War merely ...
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Why did South Korea (and the UN) accept an armistice line that put Seoul in artillery range of North Korea?
In 2017, the main threat that North Korea poses to South Korea (aside from the nuclear weapons) is that Seoul is within range of North Korean artillery. For instance (from an article in The Atlantic):
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Why didn't USSR "bust a move" to veto the Korean War?
In 1950, the USSR boycotted the UN over the Chinese Nationalists, rather than the Chinese Communists being represented there. During their absence, North Korea invaded the South and the UN voted on ...
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Did many Nationalist Chinese soldiers fight in the Korean War on the Communist side?
Some years ago I was told by some Taiwanese friends that Nationalist troops who had surrendered to the Communists during or after the Chinese Civil War were made to fight for the Communists rather ...
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Why didn't the participants of the Korean War also fight in the Vietnam War?
In the Korean war from 1950 to 1953, a lot of countries including the U.S., the U.K., France, Canada, Australia, and even Colombia, the Philippines and Ethiopia participated in the war under the U.N. ...
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Korean DMZ Soldiers
The recent news about the Koreans got me intrigued so I looked up images of the DMZ and it got me wondering...
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Why do the South Koreans stand the way they do?
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How was Mao Anying killed?
Mao Anying, the eldest son of Mao Zedong, was killed in action by an air strike during the Korean War.
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Mao was Peng Dehuai's secretary and Russian translator ...
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Why was the US unable to win in Korea? [closed]
The US had just defeated 1 Axis power and contributed greatly to the defeat of another. Its soldiers saw wide ranging combat experience over the 3 years in conflict against veteran soldiers of Germany ...
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Would Korea have divided, without the influence of external powers? [closed]
The question came to me in a roundabout manner, while reading a translation of the Korean Declaration of Independence. I've reproduced some excerpts below (emphasis added):
Though Japan has ...
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