The Korean War

The South Koreans had a mere 8 divisions, but only 4 were just ready for deployment, along the 38th parallel. To make matters worse, they had no air force, only 2,36 inch rocket launchers, no recoilless rifles, no heavy mortars, no medium artillery and no armour. The North Korean T34s, arguably the best tanks developed in WW2, rammed forward in a line-head formation, simply smashed through the 1000s of defending South Koreans. All they had against the tanks were satchel charges and hand grenades. But they were no match for the awesome power of tanks.

The Americans decided to take maters into their own hands, calling upon the UN for help, (this was possible due to the recent departure of the soviets), America and over 10 different countries deployed a huge sea-landing force at Pusan, the last bit of Korea that the South held. With a mass force, Gen MacAuthur, started to advance back on the North. The first idea was to push the invading North Koreans back to where they came from (past the yalu river), but as general MacAuthur strode on with his immense force, as he passed the 38 parallel, he thought that he could take back more of what the thought the communists did not rightfully own, he wanted to roll-back on the communist scum and try to gouge a great hole out of their side (roll-back is where the communist threat is pushed back from beyond where it started, unlike containment, where the threat is simply pushed back to where it started from)! President Truman's order were straight forward, and did not include any roll-back tactics, as he thought this may lead to either a Soviet or Chinese conflict. But MacAuthur Disobeyed these orders and carried on advancing passed the Yalu River, and sure enough, he was met by an awesome force of soviet armed Chinese, 200,000 approximately.

R.Giles 02/05/07