Saturday, January 24, 2009

Task Force Smith Monument in Suwon




Here's my visit to the monument in Suwon (15 miles south of Seoul) where the US Army got involved with the Korean War. As the N Koreans drove south, they passed this area where the US Army, let by a LTC Smith tried to stop there. There's dug in fighting positions and everything there. The problem is, the N Koreans got all the way to Pusan before they were turned around. But the Incheon landing cut them off from supplies and reinforcements, so the best warfighters got cut off and killed. It would have been over faster, but the Chinese jumped in and kept it going longer.
But here's the pics from the monument to the first UN battle. It was the beginning of the end for Korea.

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