38th Parallel
Americans Faced Blown Out Bridge During Retreat To 38th Parallel
By Marc D. BernsteinDecember 7, 1950 dawned bitter cold in the remote mountains of North Korea. More than 14,000 U.N. Read more
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Red Eclipse: Halting the Communist Drive on Seoul
By Marc D. BernsteinBy mid-April 1951, the war in Korea was nearly 10 months old. United Nations forces had suffered a reversal of fortunes in late 1950 with the entry of Communist China into the war, losing the South Korean capital of Seoul but later regaining it. Read more
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Soviet Invasion of Manchuria: Catching Japan Unawares
By John WalkerAt 11:02 am on August 9, 1945, an American warplane dropped an atomic device nicknamed “Fat Man” onto the city of Nagasaki, Japan. Read more
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Street Fight in Seoul
By Marc D. BernsteinOn September 15, 1950, the United Nations X Corps, spearheaded by two regiments of the U.S. 1st Marine Division, landed at Inchon, on South Korea’s west coast, 25 miles from the capital of Seoul. Read more
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The Korean War: Invasion to Armistice
by Mike HaskewWith the end of World War II, the Korean peninsula was divided at the 38th parallel into Soviet and U.S. Read more
