Battle of the Twin Tunnels
Battle of the Twin Tunnels | |||||||
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Part of the Korean War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
China | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Ralph Monclar | Peng Dehuai | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
3,000 | 10,000[2] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
:32 killed |
1,300 killed (counted) 3,600 killed (estimated) |
The Battle of the Twin Tunnels (French: Bataille de Twin-Tunnels) took place during the Korean War. In which the UN forces inflicted heavy casualties on the People's Volunteer Army (PVA). The "Twin Tunnels" refer to a series of railroad tunnels along the Central Line in eastern Jije-myeon, Yangpyeong County, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
A series of battles, including Twin Tunnels, the Battle of Chipyong-ni and the Third Battle of Wonju between January and February 1951 marked a turning point in many ways for the entire Korean War.
Background
When U.S.
In the recent course of protecting IX Corps' right, a joint motorized patrol from the 2nd and
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Near dawn on 1 February the 375th and 374th Regiments attacked from the north and northeast, respectively, and after daylight the 373rd Regiment assaulted the perimeter from the northwest and southwest. In hard, close-in fighting lasting all day, the defending battalions, relying heavily on artillery fire and on more than eighty air strikes finally forced the PVA to withdraw. Freeman's forces counted 1,300 enemy bodies outside their perimeter and estimated total PVA casualties at 3,600. Their own losses were 45 killed, 207 wounded, and 4 missing.[4]: 249
Aftermath
Judging from the two sharp actions at the twin tunnels, the PVA appeared determined to retain control of Chip’yong-ni. They had good reason. The town was so situated that the force occupying it could control movements over Route 2 to the west, over Route 24 to the northeast, over Routes 24 and 24A below town, and thus through the
References
- ^ "Korean War timeline 1951". Archived from the original on 2007-10-05.
- ^ Army University Press (2019). "Korea: Twin Tunnels". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2022-07-22. Retrieved 2022-07-22.
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- ^ "Batailles de Twin-tunnels et de Chipyong-Ni" (in French). 2013. Archived from the original on 2021-01-17. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
- ^ a b c d Mossman, Billy (1988). United States Army in the Korean War: Ebb and Flow November 1950-July 1951. United States Army Center of Military History. p. 248. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Bibliography
- David Halberstam's The Coldest Winter, 2007 ed., pages p. 505–588
External links
- The 2nd Infantry Division in Korea: Wonju and Twin Tunnels
- Combat Actions in Korea, Chapter 7: Twin Tunnels Patrol Ambush
- Map: Chipyong-ni, 13–14 February 1951 from Billy C. Mossman, Ebb and Flow: November 1950 – July 1951 (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 1990)
- In Korean language online encyclopedias: