Pusan: "Stand or Die"

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Pusan: "Stand or Die" is the story of the Pusan
Perimeter from the first delaying action at Osan
to the breakout a few days after General
MacArthur's amphibious landing at inchon.
Preparation for that landing deprived U.S. troops
fighting for their lives in the Pusan Perimeter
with much needed reinforcements, equipment, and
ammunition.

The first U.S. soldiers to fight in Korea had been
occupation troops in Japan. They were out of shape
physically and paid dearly for it in torrid tropic
heat and on rugged mountainous terrain. Front line
units were undermanned and ill-equipped. They had
no anti-tank weapons or ammunition that could stop
Russian tanks driven by victorious North Korean
veterans of Japanese and Chinese armies.

Replacements slowly flowed from the pipeline from
the states. They were mostly lightly trained
teenagers. They were always outnumbered on the
line where it counted. Their commander, General
Walton Walker, improvised by moving "fire
brigades" to critical places at critical times.
The teenagers learned to "stand or die" as
ordered. It was their only chance to live.

ISBN-13: 9781587211287
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Publication date: 5/28/2000
Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781587211287