#KoreanWar70Years

Dr Phil Weir

navalhistorian

On this day 1950 41 Independent Commando @RoyalMarines, under Lt/Col Douglas Drysdale, left Hungnam, heading for Koto-ri & Col Lewis "Chesty" Puller's 1st Marine Regiment, part of @USMC's @1st_Marine_Div fighting

Robert Wyse

RobertWyse15

#OTD 1951 Lieutenant Angus McDonald, Corporal Lawrence Buckland, Corporal Donald Buck, Private Edward Light & Private Thomas Hollis, of 3 RAR were captured by Chinese troops whilst on a reconnaissance

Betty Suh

SuhBetty

#한국전쟁 #KoreanWar #KoreanWar70YearsOn 25 July 1950 North Korea's Kim Il Sung (grandfather of #KimJongUn) invaded the South in an attempt to reunify the peninsula by force. By 1 October 1950,

mary dudziak

marydudziak

1/ Very early in the morning of 6/25/50 near the 38th parallel in Korea, at about 10 pm 6/24 in the US, 14-year-old Kim Yeh Soon heard shelling. She thought

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