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- Soldiers dressed in the clothes of South Korea and North Korea engage in hand-to-hand fighting as they re-enact one of historical crucial battles of the 1950-53 Korean War along the Nakdong River in Chilgok, southeastern South Korea, on Sept. 29, 2011. The event is designed to commemorate South Korea’s victory over the invading North Korean army along the river in 1950. The victory is one of the developments that decisively turned the tide of the three-year conflict in favor of the U.N. forces fighting for South Korea.
Via Yonhap.
1:55 pm on September 29th, 2011 1
“South Korea’s victory over the invading North—” I almost chocked on that one.
I could have sworn the deciding factor was the Inchon landing along with the Pusan defense my the — wait for it — it’s coming — AMERICANS.
3:20 pm on September 29th, 2011 2
It’s ““South Korea’s victory over the invading North, at Nakdong”, not
““South Korea’s victory over the invading North”.
We’re talking about the battle at Nakdong, not Incheon.
And it’s true, most of the infantry that made the last stand at Nakdong were South Korean troops. There weren’t many American ground troops at that time until after the Incheon landing. The last stand at Nakdong made the Incheon landing possible.
So what’s your problem again?
3:48 pm on September 29th, 2011 3
Nakdeong is insanely close to the ports at pusan… i mean walking distance in a matter of hours. You had to be brave to fight with such litrle ground
4:16 pm on September 29th, 2011 4
Good response Tom! You made your point with logic and facts. I’m impressed. Tell the other Tom’s to stay home.
5:07 pm on September 29th, 2011 5
Because of the glare of the sunshine on my computer screen, the picture looks black and white…At first glance I exclaimed, “Holly sh…!” because it looked to me like it was from the Korean War.
11:55 pm on September 29th, 2011 6
Since the discussion is about the allied combat troops fighting Naktong battles, several of which occurred as part of a series of battles at
on the Pusan Perimeter, from the Wikipedia page, “Battle of Pusan Perimeter order of battle,” comes this statistic: “MacArthur reported 141,808 UN troops in Korea on August 4, of which 47,000 were in US ground combat units and 45,000 were in South Korean combat units. Thus the UN ground force outnumbered the North Koreans 92,000 to 70,000.” Also factors in the battles were the hundreds of UN aircraft and dozens of warships that played vital roles helping the UN ground combat forces to hold and to repel the repeated North Korean attacks.
10:23 am on September 30th, 2011 7
#3
I’ve read that had the Pusan perimeter fallen, US was simply going to evacuate from the Korean Peninsula completely.
#6
No doubt UN and especially US troops helped defend Pusan Perimeter. But the numbers need clarification. No doubt large portion of US troops were support troops. SK army on the other hand had minimal support troops. They had no $ for such luxuries.
5:16 pm on September 30th, 2011 8
#7 LUXURIES? You think SUPPORT troops are LUXURIES
Do you even know wat “support troops” do? Let me help you — SUPPORT is the key word.
Where do the fighters GET their ammo? Their food? Their equipment? Their medical?
LUXURIES
I think not. Try this: Unable to FIGHT, EAT, SLEEP or get MEDICAL CARE without Support units.
As far as not having any MONEY, what were they buying? America gave them their weapons and ammo for free. As America should have.
Figures that someone from CALI would not know squat about how an Army functions.
5:51 pm on September 30th, 2011 9
#7
Hey chill there.
I used the term ‘luxuries’ because in the view of the S Korean troops in that place, in that time, having plenty of ‘support’ troops like the US was something they could ONLY dream about. It was something they wished/prayed/hoped for but they just didn’t get to enjoy it like the US troops did.
Yes I know. Amateurs talks abou tactics and pros talk logistics. For every 1 US soldier who was on the line in the Pacific theater, in WW2 there were 6 other support troops.
Jeeze…
I hope you get my point.
3:46 am on October 1st, 2011 10
Hmmm…
So a lot of AK-47s were used in the battle at Nakdong, were they?
And here I thought I had arrived safely back in my primary universe before the wormhole closed.
Well, I guess I’m stuck here.
It can’t be worse than Back Home where Americans elected a president they know nothing about, all movies are remakes or reboots, much of the population is on some form of welfare, and women look up to the opinions of this thing called Rosie O’Donnell.
I know, I know… it sounds too crazy to be true.
5:08 am on October 1st, 2011 11
#10, sounds like a bad LSD trip, but sadly it is reality of today. Except for the AK47. Didn’t it come out (in large enough numbers to be given to others countries) around 1956? Too late for the Korean war.
Interesting that the Koreans would make a movie about a factual battle, and not do their research. Makes you wonder just what else might not be accurate in this movie.
1:00 pm on October 1st, 2011 12
Maybe they looked at the number 47 and thought, “Aha! The AK-47 must have been available in 1947, so communists would have been using it in 1950.”
1:42 pm on October 1st, 2011 13
I checked out some other pictures and found a number of M-16s and Daewoo K2s.
I guess it was Let’s See What We Have Lying Around The Armory Day at the reenactment.
Maybe next year, summit disruptors and phased plasma rifles in the 40-watt range.
5:11 pm on October 1st, 2011 14
#11,12,
If AK-47′s were used (I’m not convinced that they were, even if Russian forces were involved (they wore Chinese uniforms)), they weren’t that early in the war. North Korean soldiers would have been armed with a variety of Japanese rifles and, mostly, Russian PPSh M-1941 (burp guns) during that battle. Later on, they almost only used captured American rifles (a fact which I would have considered if I had been part of the Nogunri investigation), so much so that it sometimes makes it hard for amateur archeologists such as myself to make sense of battlefields(those 30-06 casings are everywhere).
3:50 am on October 2nd, 2011 15
The Russian army has stopped buying the Kalashnikov. It’s waiting for a newer model.
1:43 pm on October 2nd, 2011 16
Let me guess…
The AK-200…
…silly Russians took an AK-74 and put a cheap-azz AKLU-47 on it and said, “Ve goht za nyu rraheefle.”