15 October 1950
MacArthur would, tragically, assure the President that the Chinese would never intervene in the Korean War.
#HarrySTruman #DouglasMacArthur #KoreanWar #WakeIsland
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@lronlacy.bsky.social15 October 1950
MacArthur would, tragically, assure the President that the Chinese would never intervene in the Korean War.
#HarrySTruman #DouglasMacArthur #KoreanWar #WakeIsland
@conflictsandwars.bsky.socialNational Korean War Veterans Armistice Day falls on July 27, 2025, marking the 1953 ceasefire that ended fighting on the Korean Peninsula. #KoreanWar
@lronlacy.bsky.social#OTD in 1952
‘American flame thrower units advancing toward tunnel entrance. Battle of Triangle Hill. October 14, 1952 to November 25, 1952.’
#KoreanWar
@lronlacy.bsky.social‘Peng Dehuai, left, commander of the Chinese Communist Forces meets with Kim Il Sung, premier of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea...’
#PengDehuai #NorthKorea #KimIlSung #KoreanWar #DPR #PRC #NorthKorea
@lronlacy.bsky.social#OTD in 1950
#China, for now covertly, intervenes in the #KoreanWar
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‘#YaluRiver, #Andong, 14 October, 1950. 334th Regiment, 119th Division, of Fifteenth Chinese Field Army crosses the Yalu. The CCF moved great numbers of battle-hardened veterans into #NorthKorea, undetected.’
@wordsofveterans.bsky.social"You can't kill ideas. But you can sure shoot the people who hold them." - G. Gordon Liddy
#FBIAgent #KoreanWar #UnitedStatesArmy #Military #WordsOfVeterans
@wordsofveterans.bsky.social"Nobody dislikes war more than warriors." - Daniel James Jr.
#USArmyAirForces #KoreanWar #VietnamWar #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans
@wordsofveterans.bsky.social"Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in." - Buzz Aldrin
#USMilitaryAcademy #KoreanWar #USAirForce #MilitaryPeople #WordsOfVeterans
@paulinepark.bsky.social#OnThisDay in 1950, US & UN forces crossed the 38th parallel for the first time in the #KoreanWar, despite a warning from Zhou Enlai that #China would intervene if they did; Gen. Douglas MacArthur's recklessness would cause enormous destruction... #전쟁 #한국전쟁 #조국해방전쟁
@lronlacy.bsky.social#OTD in 1950
‘An American tank crashes roughshod through an enemy roadblock near #Seoul, #SouthKorea, Oct. 7, 1950, as 7th Division infantrymen prepare to exploit the breakthrough and put an end to enemy sniper fire in this sector of the Korean front.’
#KoreanWar #tanks
@nationaldesk.bsky.socialA record 250 missing US troops were identified in FY2026 (231 in FY2025), DPAA says: 198 from WWII, 51 Korea, 1 Vietnam. No. 250: Army Capt. Albert P. Wilcox, a POW killed when the Enoura Maru sank in 1945.
www.dvidshub.net/news/576497/...
#POWMIA #DPAA #Veterans #WWII #KoreanWar #USMilitary
@akerix-en.bsky.socialOn October 7, 1950: the American invasion of North Korea
October 7, 1950 marked a turning point in the Korean War:…
#Akerix #AI #NorthKorea #KoreanWar
https://akerix.com/on-this-day/10-07-im-koreakrieg-uberqueren-un-truppen-den-38-breitengrad-eine-woche-nach-den-sudko-1950
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@adamrsweet.bsky.socialThe Korean War ended families as well as lives. Some never saw each other again. “Under the Same Moon” is about that separation, and the terrible weight of reaching freedom while the people you love remain behind. #Korea #KoreanWar #NewMusic 같은 달 아래
vervemusic.bandcamp.com/track/under-...
@historyrage.bsky.socialHUGE THANKS TO Rob Lyman for joining me to rage “Stop forgetting the war that shaped our world” 🇰🇷🔥
We talked about Kim Il-sung’s disastrous miscalculation, MacArthur underestimating China, and how Korea helped create the modern global security system. 🌍
@lronlacy.bsky.socialIn #OCTOBER 1950
‘Paratroopers drop from U.S. Air Force C-119 transport planes during an operation over an undisclosed location in Korea, in October 1950.’
#Photographer #MaxDesfor (1913-2018)
👉ALT
#KoreanWar #NorthKorea #paratroopers #blackandwhitephotography
@alczarnecki.bsky.socialA history prof, “It’s only a war crime, when the other side does it.”
#BiologicalWeapons #Unit731 #WW2 #KoreanWar
@lronlacy.bsky.social#OTD in 1950
‘General views of burned city of Taejon on Sept. 30, 1950’
Photograph by Jim (James M. J.) Pringle (1918-1970)
#KoreanWar #Taejon #JimPringle
@sempaiscuba.bsky.social26 September 1950: General Douglas MacArthur announced that United Nations troops had recaptured #Seoul from North Korean forces.
In reality, the operation to secure the city would continue until 28 September. # History #Korea #KoreanWar
@lronlacy.bsky.socialIn #SEPTEMBER 1950
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‘United States soldiers fighting to take the crest of a hill in September 1950’
Photograph by #DavidDouglasDuncan (1916-2018 👉ALT)
Breakout from the Perimeter begins 16 Sept.
#KoreanWar #Korea #PusanPerimeter #blackandwhitephotography #photojournalism
@lronlacy.bsky.socialIn #SEPTEMBER 1950
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‘M24 Chaffee light tanks of the US Army's 25th Infantry Division wait for an assault of North Korean T-34-85 tanks at Masan.’ September 1950.
#KoreanWar #Korea #PusanPerimeter #USArmy #Masan #blackandwhitephotography
