[6.25 전쟁] 서울로 향하던 2만 7천 명 앞에 남겨진 650명, 임진강 사흘과 그 뒤 2년 6개월

In April 1951, the Chinese Communist Forces deployed 700,000 troops across the entire front to retake Seoul, pushing 300,000 of them toward the Imjin River. The British 29th Independent Infantry Brigade, consisting of 4 battalions and 4,000 men, was responsible for the 19-kilometer front of that axis. Lacking the manpower to form a continuous defensive line, the units were positioned atop a few hills, leaving the spaces in between open. The unit in charge of the ford at the left end of the brigade, where the Imjin River could be crossed on foot, was the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. 27,000 men of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army's 63rd Army crossed over to the front of this battalion of fewer than 700 men. Three days later, that battalion vanished. 59 killed, 522 captured, and 67 survivors. This video begins with the sound of people crossing the river on the night of April 22, 1951, and follows the survivors until the day they set foot on British soil again in October 1953. It also examines why the rescue unit stopped 1.8 kilometers ahead, why the rescue failed despite the Corps Commander's order to "extract them even if it means counterattacking," and whether the widely known story that "British euphemisms caused the loss of the battalion" is verified by historical records. References: Official History of the Korean War by the U.S. Army Military History Institute (Mossman, Ebb and Flow), British National Army Museum, Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, British National Archives documents (e.g., Recommendation for WO 373/118/130 Khan, Commander of the Order of the Great), Gloucestershire Regimental Museum, S.P. We cross-referenced MacKenzie's study on the Battle of Imjin River and Gapyeong (Indiana University Press, 2013), Grace Huxford's study on the memory of the Korean War in the UK (Manchester University Press, 2018), the official journal of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the 19th Army Corps Operational Review, English, Korean, and Chinese Wikipedias, and domestic media reports. Due to discrepancies in troop and loss figures across sources, we used values ​​consistent across multiple sources. Regarding battalion troop numbers, we cited a discrepancy between the official U.S. war records of 699 and the prevailing theory in Korean sources of 652, which is stated in the text. The widely cited figure of "10,000 to 15,000" Chinese casualties was not established as a definitive conclusion in the text, as the author of the 1987 work cited as the source revealed it to be an arbitrary estimate. The Brigade Commander's so-called "It's a bit difficult" conversation was treated as a story originating from media reports 50 years later, as it is not found in contemporary documents. The devastating losses of the Chinese 63rd Army, which are widely discussed, occurred not in this battle, but in the Battle of Cheorwon a month later. [WEB_SOURCES:BEGIN] (Automatically generated — No editing allowed) *Image Sources (Web Resources)* Glosters front badge circa 1957 trspt by M. J. Davey, commons.wikimedia.org, public domain (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...) Battle of Inchon by US Navy, commons.wikimedia.org, public domain (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...) Matthew B. Ridgway by United States Army Japan, commons.wikimedia.org, public domain (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...) Mot fiendeland ved Imjin-elva (1952) by Trondheim byarkiv, www.flickr.com, CC BY 2.0 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/2916024...) Bridging the Imjin- Construction of Libby and Teal bridges during the Korean War (October 1952-July 1953) - USACE-p16021coll4-362.pdf by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Office of History, commons.wikimedia.org, public domain (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...) Colonel James Carne VC by Cecil Jameson, commons.wikimedia.org, public domain (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...) Unknown artist - Victoria Cross Medal - SJA-0000-03608-530 - Jersey Museum and Art Gallery by anonymous, commons.wikimedia.org, public domain (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...) B Squadron, 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars Centurion tanks by Hobson, Phillip Oliver, commons.wikimedia.org, public domain (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...) Milburn Yazici by US Army, commons.wikimedia.org, public domain (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...) At the United Nations' prisoner-of-war camp at Pusan, prisoners are assembled in one of the camp compounds. The camp... - NARA - 541956 by Unknown authorUnknown author or not provid...