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The Eagle Project (Korean: 독수리작전) was a joint operation during World War II between the Office of Strategic Services of the United States and the Korean Liberation Army of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. It is also called Project Eagle or Operation Eagle.
During World War II, American soldiers frequently encountered Korean soldiers within the ranks of the Imperial Japanese Army. Most notably was in the Battle of Tarawa, which was considered during that time to be one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. military history. A fifth of the Japanese garrison during this battle consisted of Korean ...
Referred in Korea as "Great victory of Chongsanli". President Syngman Rhee: Free City Incident (1921) Provisional Korea. Korea Independence Corps Far Eastern Republic: Defeat. Most of initial Korean militia was destroyed during the massacre. President Syngman Rhee: South-East Asian theatre of World War II (1942–1945) United Kingdom India ...
The Korean Volunteer Army (Korean: 조선의용군; Hanja: 朝鮮義勇軍), was an armed wing of the Chosŏn Independence Alliance, formed in 1942 by reorganizing the North China branch of the Chosŏn Volunteer Corps. Based in Taihang Mountain, they fought an armed struggle against the Japanese until the end of World War II.
Kim, Byeong-gi (2019), 대한민국 임시정부사 [History of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea] (in Korean), 이학사 (published 11 March 2019), ISBN 9788961473361; Kim, Robert S. (2017), Project Eagle: The American Christians of North Korea in World War II, U of Nebraska Press, ISBN 978-1-61234-930-5
Korean Liberation Army (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Military history of Korea during World War II" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Operation Blacklist Forty [1] was the codename for the United States occupation of Korea between 1945 and 1948. Following the end of World War II, U.S. forces landed within the present-day South Korea to accept the surrender of the Japanese, and help create an independent and unified Korean government with the help of the Soviet Union, which occupied the present-day North Korea.
The military history of the United States in Korea began after the defeat of Japan by the Allied Powers in World War II. This brought an end to 35 years of Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula and led to the peninsula being divided into two zones; a northern zone occupied by the Soviet Union and a southern zone occupied by the United States.