The Korean War 014 - Breakout from the Perimeter! - September 24, 1950

HeLast week's amphibious invasion of Incheon completely surprised the North Koreans, and there are now thousands of UN troops deep in their rear and their logistic system is totally compromised; on top of that, as this week begins in the south, the UN forces begin breaking out of the Pusan Perimeter, first in a trickle, but by the end of the week in a huge torrent of force, running through, around, and over the North Korean forces.

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Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Director: Astrid Deinhard
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Written by: Indy Neidell
Research by: Indy Neidell
Map animations by: Daniel Weiss
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Map research by: Tom Aldis and T.J Hennig
Editing and color grading by: Simon J. James
Artwork by: Mikołaj Uchman
Sound design by: Simon J. James & Marek Kamiński
Colorizations by: Mikołaj Uchman

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[TheKoreanWarbyIndyNeidell]

It is thanks to the Timeghost Army that this series is possible. Their dedication is the backbone of all we do here at TimeGhost.

[fredaaron]

MacArthur and Almond's focus on taking Seoul while ignoring other strategic issues seems reminiscent of Mark Clark's fixation on taking Rome instead of cutting off Smiling Albert Kesselring's troops in Italy.

[BV-frbf]

Mao's great underestimation of American logistical capacity, a mere 5 years after the surrender of Germany & Japan, is utterly stunning. The US had a 4500+ ship navy in Sept 1945 and was supplying itself, it's Allies, and the Soviet Union.

[jliller]

Spoilers: One wonders how things would have turned out if the Allies had stopped advancing at the neck of Korea, just above Pyongyang, rather than continuing to drive toward the Yalu. But it's a hard decision for a military commander to deliberately surrender the initiative, especially when the enemy is in full collapse. It will be very interesting to watch this play out in real time.

[hic]

OP Smith was a great Marine Commander. It was he that could see the disaster awaiting the Marines at Chosin. Smith, purposely slowed his Marines down instead of racing to the Yalu as MacArthur wanted. Smith was rapidly alarmed as early as October about the large groups of Chinese deserters they had been picking up.

[GravesRWFiA]

Spoiler alert- Smith will become a legendary leader of Marines. Almond will get his comeuppance when Ridgeway replaces mcarthur

[TheJudge]

Despite it being the correct term F-51 sounds so foreign and incorrect

[WreckingWood]

Imagine if MacArthur was at the European Theater and was like, "You know. Normandy ain't no where near close enough to our true target."
"What do you have in mind? Calais?"
"...."

[Pseudomeaningful]

Gotta watch it before it gets censored, again

[thomasknobbe]

This will not be the last time that Ned Almond and O.P. Smith disagree in substance, with the results having real consequences for the guys who have to do the fighting and dying. . Stay tuned to this station for further episodes of this story.

[ralphranzinger]

I did NOT Know Mao was already at that time thinking of intervention.... I always thought Kim Il Sung called Stalin for help and that one pointed to Mao, like "That's your problem now."

Well, the more you know, the better!

[shady_TTV]

Me: Horizontal Korean peninsula is not real, horizontal Korea can't hurt you
Indy: Hold my beer 😆

[benlincoln]

Enter Ned Almond, possibly the most infamous lackey in US military history

[thedeadcannotdie]

Don't bring hand grenades to a nuke fight

[moors]

A guy I worked with was in Seoul when it was overrun in battle. He was in front of the Bank of Korea and a shell had hit the building and blew open a vault. Then a local Korean was carrying a basket scurrying to get out of the zone of fighting. The us soldiers had the Koran man duck on their shelter of the blown open vault. Before the Korean man left the soldiers filled his basket with bills from the vault.

[LoPhatKao]

ever since becoming a bigtime youtuber, Indy just phones in the intro 😉

[Doc_Tar]

Nice effort to catch the fear of nuclear war at the end of your video, Indy. It really put the whole "conflict" into its proper global perspective.

[mikespangler]

As to the success of the counterattack this quote comes to mind, "success can test one's mettle as surely as the strongest adversary."

[stitchaloha]

I just love how they kept his blooper.

[lightbox]

I have been seriously able to read history about the US Civil War (Bruce Catton), WWI (Barbra Tuchman), WWII (Shirrer, Churchill) but Korea has, until your project, escaped me. Thanks for the help