Battle of the Pusan Perimeter

Battle of Pusan Perimeter
Part of the Korean War
Troops of the U.S. 27th Infantry await North Korean attacks across the Naktong River from positions on the Pusan Perimeter, September 4, 1950.
Date August 4 – September 18, 1950 Location Pusan, South Korea Result United Nations victory
Belligerents
United Nations  South Korea  United States  United Kingdom  Australia  New Zealand  Canada  Netherlands	North Korea
Commanders and leaders
Douglas MacArthur Walton Walker Chung Il-Kwon Shin Sung-Mo George Stratemeyer Arthur Dewey Struble	Choi Yong-kun Kim Chaek Kim Ung Kim Mu Chong
Units involved
U.S. Eighth Army U.S. Fifth Air Force U.S. Seventh Fleet ROK Army ROK Navy (Main article)	People's Army People's Navy People's Air Force (Main article)
Strength
141,808 total (92,000 combat)	98,000 (70,000 combat)
Casualties and losses
South Korea: 40,000?+ United States: 4,599 killed 12,058 wounded 2,701 missing 401 captured 60 tanks United Kingdom: 5 killed, 17 wounded India: 1 killed 2 war correspondents 60,504 total casualties	63,590 total casualties 3,380 captured 239 T-34 tanks 74 SU-76 guns

 United Nations

People's Army
People's Navy
People's Air Force

The Battle of Pusan Perimeter was a large-scale battle between United Nations and North Korean forces lasting from August 4 to September 18, 1950. It was one of the first major engagements of the Korean War. An army of 140,000 UN troops, having been pushed to the brink of defeat, were rallied to make a final stand against the invading North Korean army, 98,000 men strong.

UN forces, having been repeatedly defeated by the advancing North Koreans, were forced back to the "Pusan Perimeter", a 140-mile (230 km) defensive line around an area on the southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula that included the port of Pusan. The UN troops, consisting mostly of forces from the Republic of Korea (ROK), United States and British Commonwealth, mounted a last stand around the perimeter, fighting off repeated North Korean attacks for six weeks as they were engaged around the cities of Taegu, Masan, and P'ohang, and the Naktong River. The massive North Korean assaults were unsuccessful in forcing the United Nations troops back further from the perimeter, despite two major pushes in August and September.

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