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Whirlybirds - U.S. Marine Helicoptors in Korea: Marines in the Korean War Commemorative Series (Paperback)
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Whirlybirds - U.S. Marine Helicoptors in Korea: Marines in the Korean War Commemorative Series (Paperback)
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On Sunday, 25 June 1950, Communist North Korea unexpectedly invaded
its southern neighbor, the American-backed Republic of Korea (ROK).
The poorly equipped ROK Army was no match for the well prepared
North Korean People's Army (NKPA) whose armored spearheads quickly
thrust across the 38th Parallel. The stunned world helplessly
looked on as the out-numbered and outgunned South Koreans were
quickly routed. With the fall of the capital city of Seoul
imminent, President Harry S. Truman ordered General of the Army
Douglas MacArthur, Commander in Chief, Far East, in Tokyo, to
immediately pull all American nationals in South Korea out of
harm's way. During the course of the resultant noncombatant
evacuation operations an unmanned American transport plane was
destroyed on the ground and a flight of U.S. Air Force aircraft
were buzzed by a North Korean Air Force plane over the Yellow Sea
without any shots being fired. On 27 July, an American combat air
patrol protecting Kimpo Airfield near the South Korean capital
actively engaged menacing North Korean planes and promptly downed
three of the five Soviet-built Yak fighters. Soon thereafter
American military forces operating under the auspices of the United
Nations Command (UNC) were committed to thwart a Communist takeover
of South Korea. Thus, only four years and nine months after V-J Day
marked the end of World War II, the United States was once again
involved in a shooting war in Asia.
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