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	Battle of the Pusan Perimeter
		Although not part of Pusan Perimeter battles, little mentioned at the time but now recognized as a classic example of small unit team coordination in combat is the capture of Maryang San by the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Army.
		The NK seriously began an assault on the Pusan perimeter on August 4.
		When they finally crossed the Naktong and began their violent assault along the entire Perimeter, simultaneously, only 98,000 NK were attacking about 180,000 US and ROK troops.
	www.rt66.com /~korteng/SmallArms/pusan.htm (2432 words)

	The United States Military Logistics in the First Part of the Korean War, Chapter 4: Pusan, by Max Hermansen, (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Pusan in addition had a big port and was the second largest city in South Korea and closest to Japan, it must have been an easy choice.
		Pusan Logistical Command had "only" one mimeograph machine to produce directives issued by the Pusan Logistical Command itself, produce blank forms, and to reproduce nearly all directives received from higher headquarters.
		In the period up to the defensive establishment of the Pusan Perimeter, it happened now and then that smaller U.S. units were cut off and isolated by the enemy, or that they were in such a geographical position that no supplies could be brought forward by rail, trucks, or by sea.
	www.ku.edu /carrie/texts/carrie_books/hermansen/4.html (9613 words)

	Korean War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On January 12, 1950 United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson told the National Press Club that America's Pacific defence perimeter was made up of the Aleutians, Ryukyu, Japan, and the Philippines implying that the U.S. would not fight over Korea, and that the country was outside of American concern in the Pacific.
		In the east, at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir (November 26–December 13)a 2,500 man task force from the US 7th Infantry Division was virtually wiped out; the Marines fared better; though surrounded and forced to retreat, they inflicted heavy casualties on the Chinese who committed 6 divisions while trying to destroy the Marines.
		UN forces in northeast Korea withdrew to form a defensive perimeter around the port city of Hungnam, where a Dunkirk-style evacuation was carried out in late December 1950.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Korean_war (6697 words)

	Camp Hialeah
		Pusan is the 6th largest container port in the world and the 2nd largest city in Korea with a population of 3 million.
		Pusan was a critical strategic and logistical staging area during the Korean conflict.
		Pusan port facilities were under the control of the US military to handle the enormous support requirements of the fighting forces.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/camp-hialeah.htm (1494 words)

	Pusan Korea
		The city of Pusan, Korea--Location of the famed "Pusan Perimeter".
		In July of 1950, I was on a troop transport bound for Korea and the Pusan Perimeter.
		Pusan was the only port open to the allied Forces at that time.
	members.cox.net /cooleyjan/Civil/Korea/newpage1.htm (254 words)

	Korean War Children's Memorial
		FOR THE ORPHANS and impoverished of Pusan the battle to hold life and limb together must be won in that city, just as was won the Battle of the Pusan Perimeter.
		Pusan, formerly crowded with a population of 600,000, now is jammed with more than a million and a half people of which more than 100,000 are "unattached children."
		In another corner of Pusan, at the Maryknoll clinic, Catholic nuns minister to the ills of more than 1,800 people daily. Mothers with babes strapped to their backs, old men hobbling along, young women about to give birth, ill and hungry, wait to enter. Soldiers donated money and in their spare time erected buildings used.
	www.nas.com /creche/docs/PSS-344-WQ.htm (503 words)

	Amphibious Warfare: Cold War Era
		They also were able to retrieve the Marine brigade fighting in the Pusan perimeter in the weeks before the assault - but not without fierce protests from the hard-pressed U.S. Army commander defending that pocket.
		U.S. planners in the Far East believed that the bulk of the NKPA was arrayed around Pusan and that Inchon was not heavily garrisoned, beliefs that were validated during the subsequent operation.
		Coalition forces in the Pusan perimeter at first faced undiminished resistance as they attempted to break out of their encirclement, but NKPA resistance progressively weakened in the days after the invasion.
	www.exwar.org /Htm/8000PopE5.htm (2502 words)

	Chapter 15: Establishing the Pusan Perimeter
		Yongdok on the east coast stood at the northeast corner of the Perimeter, Pusan was at the south-east corner, Masan at the southwest corner, and Taegu near the middle from north to south, but only about 10 miles from the western and threatened side of the Perimeter.
		The establishment of the Pusan Perimeter may be considered as a dividing line in viewing and appraising the combat behavior of the American soldier in the Korean War.
		Among the trains returning to Pusan from the forward area were 38 hospital trains carrying 2,581 patients, and 158 freight cars loaded largely with personal belongings taken by unit commanders from their men in trying to strip them down to only combat needs.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/korea/20-2-1/sn15.htm (8811 words)

	Korean War Article: Korean War at 50/September 1950, September 2000
		Despite the serious threat to the perimeter, Gen. Douglas MacArthur begins withdrawal of frontline units, including the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, to Pusan in preparation for using them for the invasion of Inchon, a port city near Seoul on the west coast of Korea.
		In Washington, Marshall is sworn in as the Secretary of Defense.
		Frustrated by the Eighth Army's slow progress in breaking out of the Pusan Perimeter, Gen. MacArthur proposes that some of its forces be removed to launch an amphibious assault on Kunsan, south of Inchon.
	www.ausa.org /www/koreanwar.nsf/0/a5d2c9085c6dca6985256a0100723d72?OpenDocument&AutoFramed&Click= (946 words)

	U.S. Policy
		When the DPRK forces pushed towards the city of Pusan on July 25, 1950, the U.S. tried to help ROK forces hold them off (see Sigint and the Pusan Perimeter).
		The Soviets originally did not feel that the United States would become involved, and when the U.S. started supporting the ROK army at the city of Pusan, which later became the Pusan Perimeter, they realized there would be a larger threat than they anticipated coming from he UN allies (Stokesbury 51).
		This Pusan Perimeter battlefront was active thru the beginning of August, at which point the numbers were added up and it appeared that the DPRK forces had suffered much higher casualties than anticipated (Lowe 31).
	www.indiana.edu /~ealc100/Group16/E100/usstrategy.htm (1259 words)

	Korean War--Land Operations & The Pusan Perimeter, July - September 1950
		In early August the situation along this Pusan Perimeter was critical, and remained so for more than a month, as the North Koreans tried relentlessly to shatter the defenses.
		A casualty receives plasma from a U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman at a medical aid station somewhere near the Naktong River Front, during the defense of the Pusan Perimeter, 17 August 1950.
		"Saddle Ridge" was part of the Taegu battleground during the Summer 1950 defense of the Pusan Perimeter.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/kowar/50-nkof/nk-7.htm (905 words)

	Falcon 4 - Pusan Perimeter (www.combatsim.com)
		This campaign is a modern day simulation of the July 1950 defense of the Pusan Perimeter during the Korean War.
		The situation in Daring Thrust II - Pusan Perimeter is similar to the action in 1950 in that UN forces have been driven to Pusan but due to the distances involved, DPRK CAP flights have only limited duration.
		Just as in the 1950 defense of Pusan, you will notice a significant retreat of DPRK forces to the northwest of Pusan as you develop air superiority in that area.
	www.combatsim.com /htm/sept99/f4-pusan.htm (767 words)

	U.S. Army in Breakout of Pusan Perimeter
		A critical terrain feature in the breakout was Hill 268 which controlled the Taegu road and the main highway running from Waegwan south along the east bank of the Naktong River.
		With the liberation of Seoul by X Corps, the return of the city to the South Korean government on Sept. 29, and the end of organized enemy resistance in the south, U.N. and American officials faced a new situation that presented an opportunity to achieve wider military and political objectives.
		The breakout from the Pusan Perimeter cost the U.S. Army 4,334 casualties: 790 killed and 3,544 wounded.
	korea50.army.mil /history/factsheets/pusan.shtml (935 words)

	KoreaSniper.page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In early August 1950, UN and American forces dug in for a "last stand" behind the natural boundary of the Naktong River near the most southern part of the Korean peninsula.
		They usually had won their battles with the NK while Army units usually had not, and often about half of Army casualties were MIAs while the Marines usually had none.
		The Pusan Perimeter succeeded in holding off the North Korean Army for more than a month.
	www.tekawiz.com /KoreaSniper.html (237 words)

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		It was around Pusan that the Pusan Perimeter was hastily setup.
		Slowing the enemy advance was critical in order to create the perimeter around the vital seaport of Pusan.
		The Marines never lost an encounter on the perimeter and became the primary fire-teams securing the 80 x 50 mile area of the Pusan Perimeter.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=4072338&postID=92598288 (934 words)

	Wargames Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pusan was a vital port in the area and the US forces and UN representatives knew it must be held at all costs.
		After the initial speed of their assault and the staggering gains in territory at the start of the campaign the NKPA forces were to eventually encounter a significantly more powerful enemy.
		The road is a relatively straight one and is, as is usual for the terrain in the Pusan Perimeter, banked and sandy.
	www.wargamesjournal.com /postwwii/korea_tank.asp (1758 words)

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		Cavalry Division sector of the "Pusan Perimeter" north and west of Taegu.
		On the northern Pusan Perimeter front ROK troops, augmented by U.S. artillery, armor and, in some places, infantry, battled along a rough east-west line stretching through high hills and mountains from P'ohang-dong on the east coast to a few miles north of Yongch'on -- located 15 miles east of Taegu.
		In the Pusan Perimeter sector, the North Koreans counterattacked the 1
	www.korean-war.com /TimeLine/1950/09-15to09-30-50.html (6117 words)

	OPERATION CHROMITE: MacArthur's Masterstroke - South African Military History Society - Journal
		Despite strenuous efforts by the NKPA, they were unable to break into the Pusan Perimeter and the North Korean high command became extremely anxious about the difficulties of supplying their armies surrounding the Perimeter through the communications bottleneck of the Seoul area and along their extended lines of communication.
		Their 18th Division, which was on its way to the Pusan Perimeter, was turned round to engage the 1st Marines and the 70th Regiment moved rapidly into Seoul from Suwon.
		Whilst the 5th Marines were reducing the main NKPA defensive perimeter, the 1st Marines had advanced from Yongdungpo and on the morning of 24 September they began crossing the Han River to join in the final assault on Seoul.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol083js.html (6855 words)

	Korean War - 5th Cav (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The North Koreans were 25 miles away when elements of the 1st Cavalry Division swept ashore to successfully execute the first amphibious landing of the Korean War.
		The North Korean forces were being enveloped into a shrinking perimeter along the Yalu and the borders of Red China and Manchuria.
		As the fleeing Chinese raced through open ground, they were engaged by heavy fire from the tanks and escorting troopers of Company "L", who had taken heavy casualties in their mission of tank protection enroute to Chipyong-ni.
	www.hood.army.mil /1CD_1-5Cav/history/korea.htm (2646 words)

	The Philippines in the Korean War: Peftok: War in Korea
		Outwardly, the UNC remained penned inside the “Pusan Perimeter,” a 140-mile long last ditch defense line it had doggedly defended against the North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) since early August.
		Uncoordinated attacks by the NKPA against the Pusan Perimeter continued to fail against a strengthening defense.
		Pushing rapidly eastward, the Americans cut the communications of all 14 NKPA divisions attacking the Pusan Perimeter and re-took Seoul on 29 September.
	www.geocities.com /peftok/Warinkorea.html (1049 words)

	Motor Transport Corps (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 724th ROB was responsible for the area from Pusan north to Taejon, monitoring cars for movement of supplies.
		On 1 Aug 1950 the enemy threat to Pusan was critical.
		The 25th Infantry Division, engaged with the enemy 150 miles north of Pusan, was needed immediately to defend the Pusan perimeter.
	www.transchool.eustis.army.mil /museum/korearail.htm (1360 words)

	Korean_War_Map
		The U.N. forces were soon forced back to a perimeter around the southern port city of Pusan by early August.
		The landing cut off much of the North Korean army, which was attempting to force a way into the Pusan Perimeter.
		U.N. forces, breaking out from Pusan and coming south from Inchon, were able to overwhelm the Northern troops in South Korea.
	powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us /online/usonline/worddoc/koreanwarmap.htm (562 words)

	Inchon
		The Inchon Invasion was first brought up in the early weeks of July 1950 when the UN position at the Pusan perimeter was desperate and looked unlikely to hold.
		One; US forces must be committed to hold the Pusan Perimeter, Two; that the best way to take the advantage from the enemy was to stage an amphibious landing in their rear and smash the Communist supply lines.
		Owing to the increasingly desperate situation on the Pusan perimeter, the operation was abandoned and the 1st Cavalry Division was redeployed to the Pusan perimeter to reinforce the UN forces already there.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /korea/Inchon.html (727 words)

	Chromite
		During the grim opening weeks of the Korean War, while American forces fought desperately in defense of the Pusan Perimeter, Far East Commander and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was already conceiving of a bold stroke that would crush the North Korean People's Army.
		As part of his overall plan, General MacArthur envisioned that the Eighth U.S. Army (EUSA) would breakout of the Pusan Perimeter at the same time as the Inchon landing and push the North Korean Army northward, trapping it between the two forces.
		Several small enemy counterattacks struck the perimeter positions at the airfield during the night.
	www.state.nj.us /military/korea/factsheets/chromite.html (1342 words)

	Korea 1950-1953 Significant Events: 1950 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At the beginning of the month, North Korean forces were at the threshold of total victory, but by its end they were in full retreat across the 38th parallel.
		A final desperate week-long communist offensive along the Pusan perimeter failed to drive UN and ROK forces out of Korea.
		General MacArthur directed General Stratemeyer to use all available FEAF airpower, including B-29s, to help the Eighth Army hold the "Pusan Perimeter," the southeast corner of the Korean peninsula that South Korea still controlled.
	www.au.af.mil /au/afhra/wwwroot/korean_war/korean_war_chronology/kwc_september1950.html (1643 words)

	RedCloud Part Four
		The US and ROK troops were now safely behind the Pusan Perimeter, a 140-mile long line arcing north and east and defining an area that measured about 100 miles north and south and about 50 miles east and west of the port of Pusan.
		While the NKPA tried to breach the Pusan perimeter, ships carrying replacement troops, equipment, tanks, trucks, artillery, ammunition, and medical supplies were arriving daily at Pusan and disgorging the impedimenta of war onto the wharves of Korea’s most modern seaport.
		He felt that the NKPA would be vulnerable to an attack from its rear the further south it was and while it was concentrated along the Pusan perimeter, 250 miles from its base at the end of a very long and very inefficient supply line.
	www.usmcraiders.com /Redcloud4.htm (3189 words)

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		Now, when Ridgway realized the CCF were overextended and weakened and that Eighth Army was developing in skill and confidence to the point where he could and should launch a general offensive, his staff recommended a voluntary and complete surrender of the offensive.
		For the next 6 weeks, the issue of whether or not we could hold that perimeter, or would be crushed within it, was in doubt.
		By "distinction", the 5th Marines typically won their engagements with the NK forces whereas Army units did not, and half the Army casualties were usually MIAs whereas the 5th usually had none.
	webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/KW_Battles.htm (19730 words)

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