Before daylight on Sunday, June 25,
1950, Kim Il Sung, the North Korean Premier, hurled
eight veteran Infantry divisions South across the
37th parallel.
Led by 120 Soviet T34 medium tanks
and extensive mobile artillery they quickly crushed
the valiant South Korean defenders, and butchered
their way down the peninsula until stopped by
United Nations forces at the Pusan Perimeter.
General MacArthur counter-attacked
with our Marines at Inchon, far behind North Korean
lines, routed them, and our Eighth Army struck back
across the parallel almost to the Yalu river and
China.
But, in November 1950, China
entered the war in force. Our armies were ambushed
and again driven deep back into South Korea.
The battle-lines raged back and
forth, but by mid-1951 settled roughly along the
original Korean border, in about the same positions
the armies fought over for the next two years until
the Cease-Fire.
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