USS Missouri

Nicknamed ‘The Mighty Mo’, the Battleship arrived off the coast of Korea in September 1950.  During the Korean War it undertook shore bombardment with her massive guns in support of United Nations forces.  It had nine 16 inch naval guns which could fire a 1,200 kilogram shell over 30 kilometres.  It also had twenty 5 inch guns.  It had a crew of 2,700 men.

The Japanese surrender took place on board in 1945.  The battleship not only took part in the Second World War and the Korean War but would go on to serve in the First Gulf War.  It is now a museum ship in Pearl Harbour.

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The podcast is now entering the next stage, episode 19 to 29 will deal in depth with the battle for the Pusan perimeter.  The first two episode will look at the background to the battle.  Here is a map of the battlefront.

Episode 30 to 34 will dealt with the Inchon landings and the conquest of most of Korea by the United Nations forces.  Episode 35 to 49 will deal with the Chinese military intervention in Korea.  The stalemate in the battle lines between summer of 1951 and 1953 will be dealt in episode 50 onwards but as the nature of the war changes so the format will need to change from a narrative time based account to a more themed based episodes.

Stand or Die

The American defeat at the Chinju.  The American counter attack towards the Chinju pass.  The American defeat of the North Korean 6th Division at Chindong.  A biography of Colonel Michaelis the commander of the American 27th Infantry Regiment.

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