Events

Photo os US and 3RAR soldiers security searching the loads of Korean refugees

The war begins - the invasion of South Korea

The Soviet Union (USSR) supplied weaponry, trained the North Korean armed forces and its experienced WWII generals…
Photo of Australian troops advancing in American trucks

The United Nations counteroffensive to the Yalu

The United Nations Command (UNC) held on to the Pusan Perimeter and built up their strength there. In mid-September…
A drawing depicting twoarmed asian men .

China Intervenes in the Korean War

By October 1950 the UNC had more than recovered from its series of defeats in the first two months of the war. The UNC…
Painting of R.O.K Wolfpack headquarters

Stalemate, the war in 1952–1953

A war of rapid movement was replaced by one of night patrols in no-mans-land and set-piece offensives launched from…
Photo of RAAR aircraft and personel on trmac prior to an evacuation

The support base in Japan

The base should not be in the war zone but not too far from it either. The United Nations Command (UNC) was very…
Photograph of men of 1RAR Signal Squadron at a communications switchboard

Ceasefire at Panmunjon, 27 July 1953

Often one or both sides realise that they do not have the strength, or are not willing to play the price in lives and…
Photo of RAAR pilots Drummond and Thomson still wearing their blue prisoner of war uniforms

Prisoners of War

Some armies have refused to take prisoners and executed all who fell into their hands. Other armies accept prisoners…
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