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Americans Faced Blown Out Bridge During Retreat To 38th Parallel

By Marc D. Bernstein

December 7, 1950 dawned bitter cold in the remote mountains of North Korea. More than 14,000 U.N. Read more

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Infantryman’s War atop Pork Chop Hill

By Phil Zimmer

The tennis-shoed soldiers emerged from the darkness on July 6, 1953, like a “moving carpet of yelling, howling men [with] whistles and bugles blowing, their officers screaming, driving their men” against the Americans as they swept up Pork Chop Hill (Hill 255), recalled Private Angelo Palermo. Read more

Elements of the First Marine Division move inland through Inchon in their drive to cut the supply and communications of the North Korean armies pressing on the United Nations forces to the south.

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Douglas MacArthur Masterminds The Korean War’s Inchon Invasion

By Blaine Taylor

Late in the evening of June 25, 1950 U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson was at his Maryland farmhouse reading when a call arrived to inform him of a serious situation in the Far East. Read more

During the Korean War, Chinese pilots used MiG Alley to test their newly acquired MiG 15s and develop their combat tactics against UN F86 Sabres.

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The Korean War: The MiG 15 & MiG Alley

By Brad Reynolds

The Korean War was not only a landmark conflict under the guidance of the United Nations, but it was also the first serious testing ground for jet-to-jet combat. Read more