The Korean War (74 page)
12 May | General Mark Clark succeeds Ridgway. |
23 June | US Air Force bomb Yalu river power installations to induce a more co-operative attitude at the truce talks. |
29 August | Heaviest air raid of the war launched against Pyongyang. |
8 October | The final offer on the prisoner-of-war question is rejected by the communists and an indefinite recess is announced. |
24 October | Eisenhower announces that if he is elected President, he will go to Korea. |
4 November | Eisenhower elected President with 55 per cent of the vote. He visits units in Korea for three days on 5 December. |
10 November | Van Fleet announces the mobilisation of two new South Korean divisions and six regiments. |
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February | General Van Fleet retires, General Maxwell D. Taylor assumes command of Eighth Army. |
22 February | Clark proposes an exchange of sick and wounded prisoners. |
30 March | The Chinese agree and propose that prisoners unwilling to be repatriated be transferred to a neutral state. |
20 April | Exchange of sick and wounded prisoners begins at Panmunjom. |
26 April | Armistice negotiations resume. |
13 May | Clark authorised to mobilise four more South Korean divisions. |
20 May | The National Security Council decides that if ‘conditions arise’, air and naval operations will be extended to China and ground operations in Korea will be intensified. |
28 May | The US/UN negotiating team presents its final terms and threatens to break off the talks if these are rejected. Chinese attack outposts of US 25th Division. |
8 June | Prisoner-of-war question resolved and principle of voluntary repatriation accepted. |
10 June | Chinese open assault on ROK II Corps near Kumsong. By 16 June, ROK II Corps pushed back to new Main Line of Resistance. |
15–30 June | Chinese attack US I Corps. |
17 June | Revised demarcation line settled. President Rhee orders South Korean guards to release North Korean prisoners who do not wish to be repatriated. |
20 July | New Main Line of Resistance established on south bank of Kumsong river. |
27 July | Armistice signed at Panmunjom. |
Appendix B
Offers of Military Assistance for Korea by UN Members
Summaries of Offers of Military Assistance for Korea by UN members as of 15 January 1952. Many of those marked ‘Acceptance deferred’ were never taken up: most conspicuously, Nationalist China’s offer of three infantry divisions.
