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    The First and Second Battles of Wonju (French: Bataille de Wonju), also known as the Wonju Campaign or the Third Phase Campaign Eastern Sector (Chinese:...
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  • Three battles of the Korean War fought in and around the town of Wonju are known as the Battle of Wonju: First and Second Battles of Wonju, North Korean...
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    The Third Battle of Wonju, was a series of engagements between North Korean and United Nations (UN) forces during the Korean War. The battle took place...
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    of various combat outposts along the MLR, including the Battles of Bunker Hill, First Hook and Outpost Vegas. Fighting continued until the Armistice took...
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    a powerful PVA counter-offensive in the epic battles of Chipyong-ni and Wonju. The UN front was saved and the general offensive continued.[citation needed]...
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    Matthew Ridgway (category United States Army Command and General Staff College alumni)
    leadership, the Chinese offensive was slowed and finally brought to a halt at the battles of Chipyong-ni and Wonju. He then led his troops in Operation Thunderbolt...
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    The Second Battle of Seoul resulted in United Nations forces recapturing Seoul from the North Koreans in late September 1950. Before the battle, North...
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    Pang Ho-san (category Communist University of the Toilers of the East alumni)
    the anti-Kuomintang battles of the Chinese Communist Party.[citation needed] In July 1949, as the commander of the 166th Division of the People's Liberation...
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  • progress and where KPA forces, as expected, had opened an attack to seize Wonju. Although UN casualties were moderate, the Third Battle of Seoul was...
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    Command victory. The battle, along with the Third Battle of Wonju, has been called "the Gettysburg of the Korean War". After Chinese forces entered Korea...
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    The First Battle of Seoul (Korean: 제1차 서울 전투), known in North Korean historiography as the Liberation of Seoul, was the North Korean capture of the South...
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    Korean general and vice-minister of defence. He was a member of the Yan'an faction. Kim fled China to avoid the Japanese occupation, and was trained at...
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    chronological list of the battles involving France in modern history. These lists do not include the battles of the French civil wars (as the Wars of Religion,...
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    French Battalion (category Military units and formations of the First Indochina War)
    participated in the First and Second Battle of Wonju where it stopped the North Korean advance.: 221–2  It was followed by the Battle of the Twin Tunnels...
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    Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also This article lists all the battles that...
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  • III Corps (North Korea) (category Military units and formations established in 1950)
    1950). For the First and Second Battles of Wonju, it was planned that the corps would act as casualty replacement pool for the KPA II and V Corps. But like...
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    Korean War infantry battles that took place on April 16 and July 11, 1953 while the United Nations Command (UN) and the Chinese and North Koreans were...
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  • Infantry Division. In June and July 1953, there was a second battle that involved the ROK Army 2nd Infantry Division and CPVA. From April 2019 to June...
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    Choe Hyon (category Members of the 5th Political Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea)
    troops into battle in Musan and Gansanbong. The army led by Choe was one of the main targets of the Japanese during a phase of the Pacification of Manchukuo...
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    Chipyong-ni, Wonju and Heartbreak Ridge. It had already suffered a defeat at the Siege of Đắk Đoa in February 1954. In addition, anxious to avoid a second disaster...
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    Greek Expeditionary Force (Korea) (category Military units and formations of Greece in the Korean War)
    majority of the officers and NCOs of this first mission were experienced airmen, being veterans of the Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre of World War...
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    names of the principal cities of Gangneung (강릉; 江陵) and the provincial capital Wonju (원주; 原州). In 1895 Gangwon Province was replaced by the Districts of Chuncheon...
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    Wonju, where the Chinese advanced against the division in the First and Second Battles of Wonju. The 1st Ranger Company fought in this battle, first conducting...
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    The Second Battle of the Hook was fought between 18 and 19 November 1952 during the Korean War between elements of United Nations Command (UN) troops consisting...
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    allowing PVA forces to move rapidly into UN rear areas. In the subsequent battles and withdrawals from November 26 to December 2, 1950, although the Eighth...
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  • The Battle of Yultong (Korean: 율동 전투; RR: Yultong Jeontu; Filipino: Labanan sa Yultong), also known as the Battle of Puluodong (Chinese: 普罗洞战斗; pinyin:...
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    operations of this nature, and military censorship resulted in far less media focus on the other October battles that followed Heartbreak Ridge. The battle is...
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  • wounded, and 14 taken prisoner, the second-highest daily Canadian casualty count in the Korean War. Royal Canadian Regiment commemorate this battle on 25...
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    turned inward to capture Jeongseon, Yeongwol, and Pyeongchang, and settled down at the provincial capital of Wonju. There, Mōri Yoshinari established a civil...
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    operations during the Second Battle of Wonju. The Marines returned to regular and heavy action on 21 February in Operation Killer. The battle ended the UN force's...
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