Re: Timeline 1950

["Les Hanson" <hanson@totalnetnh.net>]

ED,

>      Addition.
>      September 22 1950 -51st Fighter Interceptor Wing  fly 61 F-80s from
Naha Air Base ,Okinawa to Itazuke AB,Japan.
Les
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Evanhoe" <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>
To: <korean-war-l@UKANS.EDU>; <korean-war-l@UKANS.EDU>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 9:45 AM
Subject: Timeline 1950


> The following is a scratch timeline for 1950.  I'll be posting this, plus
> 1951, 1952 & 1953 timelines on KOREAN-WAR.COM so students can get a better
> idea of the Korean War battle chronology.  Would appreciate additions to
> andcorrections feedback from list members to this and following timelines
>
> Ed
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> KOREAN WAR TIMELINE 1950
> June 25
> North Korea invades South Korea with 135,000 men, initiating the Korean
War.
> June 27
> President Harry S. Truman deploys the 7th Fleet to waters off Taiwan to
> prevent the spread of the conflict in Korea to other Far East waters.
> June 27
> First air victory of the war. A 68th All-Weather Squadron F-82 shoots down
> a North Korean Yak fighter. Two more enemy planes are destroyed in this
air
> battle.
> June 29
> Fifth Air Force's 3rd Bombardment Group sends 18 B-26 Invader light
bombers
> against Heijo Airfield near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang: 25
enemy
> aircraft are destroyed on the ground; one Yak fighter is shot down.
> July 1
> First U.S. infantry unit arrives in Korea: 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry
> Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. Along with Battery A of the 52nd Field
> Artillery Battalion, it comprises Task Force Smith.
> July 2
> Off Chumunjin, on Korea's east coast, the USS Juneau helps destroy three
of
> four attacking North Korean torpedo boats.
> July 5
> Battle of Osan. First U.S. ground action of the war: Task Force Smith (406
> infantrymen and 134 artillerymen) engages and delays advancing North
Korean
> People's Army (NKPA) units.
> July 6
> Fifty-seven Army nurses arrive in Pusan, Korea. They helped establish a
> hospital for the wounded. Two days later, on July 8, twelve Army nurses
> moved forward with a mobile Army surgical hospital (MASH) to Taejon.
> Aug. 4 -
> Sept. 16
> 84,478 U.S. troops participate in the defense of the Pusan Perimeter,
> including the U.S. Army's 1st Cavalry Division, 2nd, 24th, and 25th
> Infantry Divisions, and the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade.
> Sept. 15
> Inchon Landing (Operation CHROMITE). U.S. and allied forces land U.S.
> Marines and U.S. Army troops at Inchon.
> Sept. 15-30
> Inchon Operation and Liberation of Seoul. U.S. and allies re-capture Seoul
> on Sept. 27 after a week of fighting.
> Sept. 16-27
> Pusan Perimeter breakout. Eighth U.S. Army (EUSA) breaks out of the Pusan
> Perimeter. Four U.S. divisions (1st Cavalry Division, 2nd, 24th and 25th
> Infantry Divisions) participate.
> Oct 20
> War's first airborne operation. Seventy-one C-119s and 40 C-47s of the Far
> East Air Force's (FEAF) Combat Cargo Command drop 2,860 paratroopers of
the
> 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team (RCT) at Sukch'on and Sunch'on north
> of Pyongyang. Only one trooper killed and 36 injured in jump.
Paratroopers,
> in association with ground forces driving north, kill or capture about
> 6,000 North Koreans during this operation.
> Oct. 25
> Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) launch their first phase offensive of the
> Korean War.
> Nov. 8
> First all-jet combat in history. An F-80 Shooting Star of the 51st Fighter
> Interceptor Wing shoots down a MiG-15 fighter near Sinuiju in a 30-second
> dogfight.
> Nov. 8-26
> FEAF B-29s and Navy aircraft attack Yalu River bridges in attempt to
> isolate the battlefield.
> Nov. 25 - Dec. 15
> CCF Counteroffensive in North Korea. Seven U.S. divisions participate (1st
> Marine Division, U.S. Army's 1st Cavalry Division, 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 24th and
> 25th Infantry Divisions).
> Nov. 27 - Dec. 9
> Battle of the Changjin (Chosin) Reservoir. The encircled 1st Marine
> Division fights its way southward from the Chosin Reservoir to the port
> city of Hungnam.
> Dec. 24
> Hungnam Operation is complete--the U.S. Navy evacuates 105,000 U.S. and
> Republic of Korea (ROK) forces.
> Ed Evanhoe, PO Box 916, Antlers, OK, 74523-0916
> Author: DARKMOON: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War
> Life member: Special Forces & Special Operations Associations
> Web site:  http://www.korean-war.com
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