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Home Town eldorado ar.
Last Address robert d deeds 265 pigeon hill lndg. eldorado ar. 71730
Korean War/UN Defensive (1950)/Battle of the Pusan Permineter
From Month/Year
June / 1950
To Month/Year
August / 1950
Description From the outbreak of the Korean War following the invasion of South Korea by North Korea on 25 June 1950, the North Korean Korean People's Army had enjoyed superiority in both manpower and equipment over South Korea's Republic of Korea Army and the United Nations forces dispatched to South Korea to prevent it from collapsing. The North Korean strategy was to aggressively pursue U.N. and South Korean forces on all avenues of approach south and to engage them, attacking from the front and initiating a double envelopment of both flanks of the defending units, which allowed the North Koreans to surround and cut off the opposing force, forcing it to retreat in disarray, often leaving behind much of its equipment. From their initial 25 June offensive to fights in July and early August, the North Koreans used this strategy to defeat any UN force they encountered and push it south. However, with the establishment of the Pusan Perimeter in August, the U.N. troops held a continuous line which the North Koreans could not flank, and their advantages in numbers decreased daily as the superior U.N. logistical system brought in more troops and supplies to the U.N. forces.
When the North Koreans approached the Pusan Perimeter on 5 August, they attempted the same frontal assault technique on the four main avenues of approach into the perimeter. Throughout August, their military conducted direct assaults resulting in the Battle of Masan, the Battle of Battle Mountain, the First Battle of Naktong Bulge, the Battle of Taegu, and the Battle of the Bowling Alley. On the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, the South Koreans repulsed three North Korean divisions at the Battle of P'ohang-dong.
The North Korean attacks stalled as U.N. forces, well equipped and with large standing reserve units to draw upon, repeatedly repelled them. All along the front, the North Korean troops reeled from these defeats, the first time in the war North Korean strategy had failed.
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year
June / 1950
To Month/Year
August / 1950
Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020
Personal Memories
People You Remember bobby joe wilder-w.b smith-leonard coty-ronald clark-billy heinz-lt.charlie mize-lt.blackie cahill.captain robert bone.-s/sgtperez-m/sgt potter sgt.brandenhorst
sgt.salamino & many more.
Memories my first kill
after going ashor in Pusan,we were loaded on trucks &taken to the lines on the west side of korea.it was a short ride.getting us organized took a quite a while.the sounds of warwere very strange at that time.probably all of us were
uneasy as most of us had never experienced combat.finallythings got straightened out &we were told to dig in.at this time i was abarman.Bobby joe Wilder was my assistant.we started to dg in, but the soil was rocky & hard clay.we got about a foot deep &got interested in an artillery exchange.we wereinbetween them &the shells sounded similar to a train as they went overhead.it was a sight for us as nothing was happening around usbobby joe said look and pointed.a house was going across a flat piece of ground way out in front of us at a fast rate of speed & then stopped.it had to be a camoed tank.wewas really getting a big kick out of it.pretty soon rain &before very long the artillery shells started hitting a lot closer to us.it wasnt very funny now..we went after that rocky clay soil like i t was cotton candy.in about 30 minutes we had a stand up fox hole for both of us.we spent the next day there.early the next morning,we were told we had an objective to take. i think it was just our platoon, but i am no sure.. we traveled down this road in route
column for about 2 miles.,&came into a small village where the marines in front of usturned left toward a large red clay hill.i had just made the turn off of the road when a sniper in a tall building started shooting marines.they pinned him down inabout a minute or two.they didnt know if he had been hit or even if he was alone.they called up an m26 sherman tank.someone hollered watch the road watch the road.there was a north korean walking towards us frome our left.ihad my bi pod down & the hinged butt plate on my shoulder.i hadhim in my sights as he approched us.he had his rifle slung on his back..,and his hands up.i didnt know what to do.i was going to let him surrender. by now he was only about 35 or 40 yards away.s/sgt perez hollered kill him,kill him.he started to run to the side of the road & was trying to get his rifle off of hi back..i pulled the trigger &froze on it .i must have fired 10 or 12 rounds before i thought to get off of the trigger.i hought to myself goddam bob.you just killed a man.the tank blew the building apart. i got up &walked over to the man i had just killed.i looked at him &thought i was going to through up.i wandered if he had a wife &children.even if he didnt,he still had a mom & dad.we were approaching the red clay hill now.the supporting fire had been lifted.blackiesaid he would go to our left &thtrow a grenade to draw there fire &at that time we should overrun the hill..that is what happened& in 5 or 10 minutes ,there was40 or 50 dead on that red cl;ay hill.i know there wassome marines killed &a feww more wounded. in less than a half a day i learned what to expect a combat marines life tobe like.for seven months i was in combat almost every dayi dont have any idea how many others there were &am glad i dont know.i guess i remember him so well because he was the first. bob deeds
