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From Pusan to Panmunjom by Gen Paik Sun Yup Korea 4 star General Soft Cover
From Pusan to Panmunjom by Gen Paik Sun Yup
Soft Cover
271 pages
Copyright 1992
CONTENTS
Mapsviii
Foreword by Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway and Gen. James A. Van Fleet
Prefacexiii
Acknowledgmentsxv
Abbreviations xvi
1 The Long, Long Summer1
Kaesong Has Fallen1
The Munsan Defense Line Crumbles8
Across the Han by Raft15
2 Retreat to the Naktong: 200 Miles of Hell 23
Delaying Actions23
No Place to Run28
Bloody Fighting at the Naktong34
Reversing the Tide of War46
3 We Lead the Way North55
Back the Way We Came55
Attacking Pyongyang "Patton's Way"61
The Greatest Day of My Life68
Pyongyang Is Free74
The Chinese Trap82
Our Last Hours in Unsan: The Bloody Autumn Night90
4 Dashed Hopes98
Rest and Recuperation98
The Christmas Offensive: Blind March to Disaster103
The Wretched Withdrawal of January 4, 1951110
Seesaw Battles on the Central Front119
5 Back to the 38th Parallel128
Spring Breezes Blow on the Han River128
War Rations, Courtesy of General MacArthur133
Departing the 1st Division134
Withdraw or Fight to the Death141
The Collapse of III Corps147
Concentrated Training for the ROK Army157
6 What Will We Lose and What Will We Gain?164
Representing Korea at Armistice Talks No Korean Wants164
The Truce Talks Falter172
Return to the Front175
Task Force Paik Hammers Guerrillas179
Quiet Returns to the Chiri186
Organizing II Corps: Symbol of the New Army194
7 The Road to Four Stars and Army Chief of Staff201
A New Honor201
Solving Ration Problems and Stacks of Other Issues208
Korea's First Four-Star General214
The War Enters a New Phase221
Releasing Anticommunist POWs, Startling the World228
Clutching for the High Ground234
8 The War Ends at Last244
Did the War Make Unification More Remote?244
Chief of Staff Again249
Epilogue253
Index255
The Author271
Maps
Koreafrontispiece
The North Korean Invasion2
Withdrawal/Delaying Action 17
The Pusan Perimeter 29
The Pursuit66
CCF Intervention86
Defensive/Offensive Operations123
The Battle Lines169
Operation Rat KillerEncirclement 180
The Line of Contact237
PREFACE
The Korean War began at dawn on Sunday, June 25, 1950, with North Korea's unprovoked military incursion into the Republic of Korea. The republic's army was totally unprepared in strength and equipment and was virtually incapable of deterring the massive North Korean attack.
It was variously called a conflict, a police action, or a limited war, but it was really a brutal struggle for national survivaland a war. However, people under sixty can't remember it. Even in Korea, our commemorations are growing more perfunctory with each passing year. Yet memories of the war pound in us veterans like the beating of a second, massive heart.
I have reached three score years and ten and submit this memoir humbly, less as justification for my life than as a warning to all. Accounts of the Korean War have been published in a variety of books and other forms in Korea and abroad in the years since the war ended. But few if any of these accounts originated from those Koreans who were close to the scene. I am one of the few soldiers left alive who spent the three years, one month, two days, and seventeen hours of the Korean War, from the beginning of the Sunday invasion until the armistice in 1953, as a field commander in the lines. I hope, then, that this book will add in some small way to the literatures of the war and of the Korean Army.
Geographically, Korea has been situated at a pivotal point of geopolitical contest among the powers. In the last weeks of World War H, Russia accepted the surrender of the Japanese forces in Manchuria and northern Korea. The Americans accepted Japanese surrender in southern Korea, below the 38th parallel. Although this line was considered to be purely technical, Russia set up its system in the north, rejecting every mediatory effort made by the United Nations for a unification of Korea. As a result, we were among the first victims of the cold war. Despite a history of one thousand years as a unified nation and our tragic war, Korea has remained divided.
I penned this memoir because I am saddened to consider that so many of my countrymen know so very little about the Korean War or about the role their army played in defense of their homeland, and partly because I thought that many Americans have failed to recognize the important role the ROK Army played in defending Korea. The reader will see in virtually every line the enormous extent of the help that we received from the United States of America, which we appreciate so much. For me, the relationship between America and Korea started with the innumerable combat operations we endured together, and I firmly believe such a close relationship between the two countries will continue to flourish in the future. Thank you, America. We have not forgotten.
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