The first true test of the Cold War erupted in 1950 ... The first U.S. Marines - leading the U.N. force - join battle shortly after landing on the Korean Peninsula. U.S. troops suffer heavy ...

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean war, which lasted from ... Here, we look at the timeline of the battles, the weapons used and the casualties that resulted from it.

July 5, 1950 – For the first time since the end of World War II, US troops go into battle, at Osan, 30 miles south of Seoul. The first American casualty of the Korean War dies here, Private ...

“That was the last major battle during the Korean War, and that took place in July of ’53, and we lost a lot of people there.” Serchia was drafted into the Army as an infantryman. He was ...

A Canadian man is planning to walk 187 miles on two continents to commemorate one of the bloodiest battles of the Korean War. The Battle of Kapyong is memorialized at two sites in Canada ...

They first came across each other more than 70 years ago in a short, intense encounter during the chaos of a Korean War battle. Bert Ruechel of Wausau was a machine gunner in bloody fight that ...