On Aug. 10, 1950, he and his unit engaged in "combat actions" with the North Korean People's Army along the Naktong River near Yongsan, South Korea. After those actions, Barrett was deemed missing ...

Well aware their key to victory lay in maintaining the initiative - and that they were running low on time - North Korean forces laid plans for a decisive breakthrough along the Naktong River.

TIME Correspondent James Bell was with the U.S. Marines on the Naktong front last week. His report: NO NAME RIDGE is a barren, useless place with a few scrub bushes and a patch of reddish soil in ...

“They Like Girls’ Pictures.” Roy Manring and his platoon were defending a position near Hill 303, a bleak bump in the terrain east of the Naktong River, a few miles northeast of battered ...

Though he was peppered by shrapnel and severely burned after a kamikaze pilot slammed into his ship, Lt. Richard McCool Jr. went to work.

On Aug. 10, 1950, he and his unit engaged in "combat actions" with the North Korean People's Army along the Naktong River ...

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