The Korean War (97 page)

World War II
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4
,
ref 5
,
ref 6
,
ref 7
,
ref 8
,
ref 9
,
ref 10
,
ref 11
,
ref 12
,
ref 13
,
ref 14
,
ref 15
,
ref 16
,
ref 17
,
ref 18
,
ref 19
,
ref 20

WYOMING Line
ref 1

Yalu river
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4
,
ref 5
,
ref 6

Camp 5 on
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4
,
ref 5
,
ref 6
,
ref 7

Chinese army crosses
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4

ROK forces reach
ref 1

US restriction on bombing beyond
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4
,
ref 5
,
ref 6

Yangyang
ref 1

Yechon
ref 1

Yeo, Lieutenant Jimmy
ref 1

Yi Dynasty
ref 1

Yi Ku-bom
ref 1

Yong-do island
ref 1

Yongdok
ref 1

Yongdong
ref 1

Yongdungpo
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4

Yonghungdo
ref 1

York, Sergeant
ref 1

Yosu
ref 1

Younger, Major Tony
ref 1
,
ref 2

Yo Un-hyong
ref 1

Yudam-ni
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
ref 3
,
ref 4
,
ref 5

Yugoslavia
ref 1
,
ref 2

Yu Xiu
ref 1

Plates

President Harry S. Truman, who took the decision that the United States should intervene in the Korean War.

Some key international figures in the Korean crisis:

US Secretary of State Dean Acheson.

British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.

British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin.

The Supreme Commander: Douglas McArthur.

American infantry on the march in the first weeks of war, passing a burning North Korean tank.

The face of defeat: men of the American 24th Division who lost even their boots in the headlong flight from the communists.

In the first weeks of the war, the world was shocked by revelations of North Korean ruthlessness, above all in the treatment of prisoners. This was one of the first photographs to be released, of a captured American soldier whose body was later found, bound and shot.

The face of tragedy: from the beginning, it was the civilian population of Korea that paid the heaviest price in the struggle.