The Pusan Perimeter was the area in extreme southeast Korea that was held by U.S. and South Korean troops during the furthest advance of the North Korean troops, in the summer and fall of 1950, during the Korean War. It extended along 140 miles and was named after the coastal city of Pusan which served primarily as an airhead for resupply and reinforcement. In the south it ran west of Masan; much of its length coincided with the course of the Nakdong River. It then ran just north of Daegu and Gyeongju and hit the east coast just below Pohang.

[edit] See also

• Nakdong Bulge

[edit] External links

• Evanhoe, E., Defense of the Pusan Perimeter, 2002, The Korean War web site
• Battle of the Pusan Perimeter (Kortegaard)
• Establishing the Pusan Perimeter (Appleman)
• Breakout from the Pusan Perimeter (DOD Korean War Commemoration)
• Memoirs - Pusan Perimeter (Duane Thorin)

This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original article was at Perimeter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusan Perimeter. The list of authors can be seen in the Perimeter&action=history page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License..