OVERVIEW OF THE WAR

OVERVIEW OF THE WAR

The map above purports to show the various stages of the war through July 1953.  However, it does NOT show that (according to the First Cavalry Division War Diary for October 27, 1950) that the 7th Republic of Korea (ROK) Regiment of the 7th ROK Division had reached the Yalu river at the town of Chonan.  It also does not show that the First Battalion of the 17th Regiment of the 7th U.S. Infantry Division reached the town of Hyesanjin on the Manchurian border at about 10 AM on November 21, 1950!!.

TOTAL NUMBER CASUALTIES FOR THE WAR ARE SHOWN BELOW:

                                KILLED          WOUNDED               MISSING            CAPTURED

SOUTH KOREA:     227,800          717,000                     43,500                (INCLUDED IN MISSING)

U.S.                            54,229          103,248                       8,142                 3,746

UK                                   710              2,278                       1,263                    766

TURKEY                         717               2,246                          167                    217

AUSTRALIA                   291               1,240                            39                      24

CANADA                        309                1,055                           30                        2

FRANCE                         288                  818                            18                      11      

Ten other countries were part of the United Nations support in Korea and had casualties as follows:  They were:  Thialand, total casualties 913; Greece, total casualties 715; Holland, total casualties 704; Columbia, total casualties 686; Ethiopia, total casualties 656; Philippines, total casualties, 188; Belgium/Luxembourg, total casualties 453; New Zealand, total casualties, 115; and South Africa, total casualties 42.

U.S. war cost totaled twenty billion dollars.  The U.S expended a total of 3.3 million tons of ammunition of all sizes, including bombs.

Chinese Communist casualties were 132,000 killed, 238,400 wounded, 8,000 missing and 21,400 captured.

Chinese war cost totaled 2.5 billion dollars.