Rescue of the Gloucestershire Battalion
After the fight on the Battle of the Yultong, the PEFTOK soldiers once again found themselves in the reserve. However, the rest for the Filipinos in the reserve would be short lived as the British Gloucestershire Battalion located on a ridge along the frontlines of the 29th Brigade became surrounded […]

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The Chinese Enter the War
On Thanksgiving of 1950 the Chinese military launch their massive sneak attack against the allied forces which found the PEFTOK soldiers retreating south with the rest of the UN forces to escape the nearly 300,000 marauding Chinese soldiers that were steam rolling down the peninsula.
The 10th BCT retreated with the rest […]

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Background of Philippines Involvement in the Korean War
One of the first United Nations members to answer the call to deploy troops and would go on to make meaningful battlefield contributions to the war effort in Korea was the Philippines. The Philippine government deployed one regimental combat team to fight in the Korean War that […]

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For those that enjoy reading Korean War history, below I have consolidated the links to my on going series of Heroes of the Korean War. The Korean War is filled with many great heroes, but due to little public interest in the war, the stories of their heroics has largely gone unnoticed. Here […]

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The Turkish Korean War Legacy
The Turkish Brigade was not spared the ravages of the failed Kunu-ri battle between the 2nd Infantry Division and the five Chinese divisions. The Turks suffered heavy casualties in the fight with 218 soldiers killed, 94 missing in action, and 455 wounded to go along with losing 70% of the […]

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Running the Gauntlet
On the morning of November 30 after a night of attacks and mortar strikes on the units at Kunu-ri, the 2nd ID began its attack from the north while the British began their assault from the south to open the road. General Keiser believed that the Chinese only had the one roadblock […]

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The Defense Kaechon
As the rest of the division began to withdraw towards Kunu-ri, General Yazici and his men remained in place east of Kaechon. Due to a lack of communications with higher headquarters as well as language issues, the Turkish Brigade was late in receiving orders to withdraw. The Turks fought throughout the […]

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The Final UN Offensive into North Korea
In November of 1950 General Douglas MacArthur had begun a final massive offensive operation in North Korea to mop up the remaining elements of the North Korean Army and end the war before Christmas. It was part of this offensive operation that the 1st Turkish Brigade would see […]

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Background
The Korean War saw a total of 22 countries participate in the defense of the Republic of Korea against communist aggression from North Korea. These countries that answered the United Nations call to evict the communist aggressors from South Korea came from a wide variety of countries that sent varying amount of troops. […]

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I always find it amazing how these ROK military forensic investigators continue to find remains from the Korean War that occurred over 60 years ago, but to this day not one forensic investigator has been able to find one bone of the supposedly 400 Korean civilians that died from an alleged US massacre at No […]

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Via DPRK Forum, comes some interesting footage of the reconstruction of Pyongyang following the end of the Korean War:

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North Korea has recently marked the 40th Anniversary of the Pueblo Incident:

North Korea demanded the United States end its "hostile policy" toward the communist state Wednesday as Pyongyang marked the 40th anniversary of its seizure of a U.S. spy ship.
An unnamed spokesman for the "Korean National Peace Committee," one of Pyongyang’s propaganda organizations, called […]

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