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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Memorial_of_Korea

 

In the predawn of June 25, 1950, ninety thousand North Korean soldiers, their columns led by Soviet-built tanks, crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded South Korea.

The attack into South Korea caught America unprepared. Meager military budgets of the late 1940s failed the war fighters. Troops were not trained or organized. The weapons they needed were in disrepair, in warehouses, in storage parks or yet to be updated and put into production.

Of the ten active divisions, only the one in Europe was up to strength. The other nine lacked the normal third battalion in their infantry regiments and had just two instead of three firing batteries in the artillery battalions.

The initial North Korean assault pushed the South Koreans and Americans into a defensive perimeter around Pusan. The enemy had overrun the remaining peninsula. The fighting was savage.

With backs against the sea, officers gathered to hear General MacArthur's field commander, Lt. Gen. Walton Walker, speak to the assembled staff.

"We are fighting a battle against time." Walker said. "There is no line behind us to which we can retreat. We must fight until the end. Capture by these people is worse than death itself. We will fight as a team. If some must die, we will die fighting together. Any man who gives ground may be personally responsible for the death of thousands of his comrades. We are going to hold this line. We are going to win."

With heroism, daring and resourcefulness, our troops finally stopped the initial North Korean surge, and with the Marine Corps landing at Inchon, they brought the fight for freedom to hill tops and mountainous battlefields pushing back the North Koreans from their attack on that historically infamous day in 1950.