By In honor of the 56th anniversary of Taskforce Smith engaging the North Koreans for the first time during the Korean War today; I have decided to repost my prior series of postings covering the deployment and battle of the American unit to Korea.
Here are the links below to my complete series covering the soldiers of Task Force Smith:
The Soldiers of Task Force Smith
The Deployment of Task Force Smith
8:32 pm on April 20th, 2007 1
[...] There were a few NCOs and officers in the unit that did have combat experience. However, when the war in Korea did break out the experienced NCOs from the 7th Cavalry were pulled to fill units from the 24th Infantry Division that were the first division in Japan to deploy to Korea to delay the North Korean advance that included units such as Task Force Smith. [...]