The 8th Army units along the Yalu fought out of the encirclement and advanced to the rear in similar running battles as they headed south to cross the 38th parallel. Navy had an evacuation armada to give them safe passage south. In bitter battles in bitter cold, the encircled troops broke out and in running battles they took the road east to the Port of Hungnam where the U.S. Marines were not going to be “Thanksgiving dinner” for the Chinese volunteers at Chosin Reservoir. The result was the encirclement of troops along the Yalu and in the Chosin Reservoir area. But, 240,000 Chinese soldiers wanted to cross the Yalu and “join us” for Thanksgiving. MacArthur was preparing to wrap everything up and have the troops home for Christmas.
forces began arriving, MacArthur’s command drove the North Korean Army back across the 38th Parallel and all the way up to the Yalu River, the border with Manchuria. This tactic cut the North Korean Army’s supply lines and permitted the 8th Army to break out of the Pusan Perimeter.Īs more U.S.
In September 1950, General Douglas MacArthur took a calculated risk and made a brilliant and successful invasion at Inchon. Finally, on June 25, 1950, North Korea commenced a full-scale attack across the 38th parallel in an operation that was a reminder of the German “Blitzkrieg.” The reasonably new South Korean Army and their American training cadre were overwhelmed by the onslaught, and within a short period of time, the defenders were pushed across the Nakdong River into an area that became known as the Pusan Perimeter.
This issue festered for several years with multiple small harassing attacks from the North across the boundary line. Capitalism and communism could not co-exist. Basically, the governments of each side wanted a unified country according to its ideology and terms. From the onset, the two Koreas wanted reunification.
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