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3 unusual facts about Battle of Taegu


Battle of Taegu

The United States, a permanent member of the Security Council, immediately deployed armed forces (U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force units) to southeastern South Korea because of their immediate availability from their bases in Japan and Okinawa, where the military occupation of Japan was still in effect (through 1952).

Under the orders of Emperor Hirohito, the Japanese people had presented no trouble to the American occupation forces, and the Japanese set about peacefully rebuilding their devastated country.

On the next morning, 10 August, air raids and artillery bombardments rocked Hill 268, devastating the North Korean battalion.



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