South to the Naktong, north to the Yalu : June-November 1950 /
An account of the first five months of the Korean War, describing the withdrawal to the Pusan perimeter, MacArthur's landing at Inch'ŏn and drive northward that crushed the North Koreans, and the stiffening of enemy resistance as the United Nations forces neared the Manchurian border.
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington :
Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army,
1961.
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| Series: | United States Army in the Korean War (Center of Military History) ;
1st v. |
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Table of Contents:
- Korea and the background of conflict
- Armed Forces of North and South Korea
- Invasion across the parallel
- The United States and the United Nations react
- The North Koreans cross the Han River
- American ground forces enter the battle
- Delaying action: P'yongt'aek to Choch'iwon
- In the Central Mountains and on the East Coast
- Eighth Army in command
- Disaster at the Kum River Line
- Taejon
- The Front Line moves South
- The Enemy flanks Eighth Army in the West
- Blocking the road to Masan
- Establishing the Pusan Perimeter
- The first American counterattack: Task Force Kean
- The First Battle of the Naktong Bulge
- Battle for the Eastern Corridor to Pusan
- The Taegu Front
- Stalemate West of Masan
- August build-up and September portents
- Perimeter battle
- North Koreans breatkthrough in the South
- The North Korean Great Naktong offensive ; The landing at Inch'on
- The capture of Seoul
- Breaking the cordon
- Pursuit and exploitation
- The plan for complete victory
- Eighth Army and X Corps enter North Korea
- The capture of P'yongyang
- Up to the Ch'ongch'on
- The Chinese intervene
- Unsan
- Eighth Army holds the Ch'ongch'on Bridgehead
- The Chinese appraise their first phase Korean action
- Guerrilla warfare behind the Front
- The X Corps advances to the Yalu
- The big question.