BATTLE OF KOREA: The ROKs of White Horse Hill

"These little guys are unbelievable," said a U.S. major from Pennsylvania. Said a U.S. sergeant from Seattle: "That hill was a bouncing, flaming hell. It's hard to believe that any of them could live through that shelling, let alone stay there and fight."

The battle of White Horse Hill, between stubborn Chinese Reds and equally stubborn South Koreans, was the bloodiest engagement of 1952. After six days of inconclusive seesawing, the gallant ROKs had chewed up several Chinese regiments, and the enemy had lost, in killed & wounded, an estimated 10,000 men. South Korean losses, though not announced, were also high....