Weaponry such as tanks and airplanes were held back. Also in , most the U. While the South Koreans had little heavy military equipment, historians note the North Koreans were armed with Soviet T Tanks, which some say had a substantial psychological effect on South Korean forces because they had never seen a tank before. Following the North Korean attack, the U.
While the U. They sacrifice themselves against the tanks. It is too little and too late. A decision is made Two days after the attack, on Tuesday, June 27, , President Truman and his advisers came to a decision. Rather than asking for a declaration of war from Congress, Truman opted to claim he was sending ships and planes at the request of the United Nations Security Council.
This allowed Truman, rather than Congress, to take credit for responding to the Communist threat. By a. On June 25, the North Korean army crossed the 38th parallel in a full-scale invasion, destroying or pushing back any resistance in its path. In the first month of the war, North Koreans had pushed South Korean and American ground forces into a very small area on the Pusan peninsula of southeast Korea.
Inchon harbor was chosen as the landing site, partly because of its proximity to the capital at Seoul. The harbor city fell quickly on September 15, , and from this foothold the Allied forces pushed the North Koreans back across the 38th parallel and up the peninsula within a matter of weeks. Following the Inchon invasion, Allied forces chased the North Korean army to within a few miles of the Yalu River, the border with mainland China.
Mao Tse Tung, fearing that an invasion of Manchuria would follow, joined the war on the North Korean side. Men and materiel began pouring across the Yalu River.
The reinforcement allowed Communist forces to strike back, surprising the Allied army, which had committed the same error of overextending its resources in moving north that the North Koreans had in moving south.
Throughout the Korean War, the United States Navy provided substantial assistance to land operations. Planes from carriers gave air support to combat operations and destroyed factories, power stations, supply trains, and other targets that interrupted supplies to the Communist army.
Along the coast, minesweepers worked to keep harbors clear for Allied operations. Most importantly, Navy ships provided platforms for coastal operations, such as the invasion at Inchon and the evacuation of thousands of encircled troops from the city of Hungnam. In January , the combined Chinese and North Korean forces pushed United Nations forces back below the 38th parallel, and for the next five months the war was one of offensive and counter-offensive, as the Chinese poured hundreds of thousands more men and tons of supplies and weapons into its attempt to destroy the Allied army.
Finally, Mao Tse Tung admitted that his army would be unable to administer a final crushing blow. The war became one of dogged endurance. Both sides entrenched, and for the next two years as peace negotiations began, broke off, and began again the war continued. The battle line wavered above and below the 38th parallel, but changed little between May and July Carol Berry, a weather forecaster in the Navy in the s, recalled her conversations with the pilots who flew missions over Korea.
A forgotten war? Not by those who fought in Korea, who suffered wounds there, were held as POWs, lost buddies or loved ones there. A memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D. According to the U. Department of Veterans Affairs, nearly 1. They were among the first American troops to fight in desegregated units under Executive Order , which Truman signed in While the U.
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