Battle of Kunu-ri 1950: The 5,000 Turks Sent Into the Hole Where a Corps Vanished

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Battle of Kunu-ri 1950: The 5,000 Turks Sent Into the Hole Where a Corps Vanished​

Oct 29, 2026



Battle of Kunu-ri 1950: the 5,000 Turks sent into the hole where a corps vanished, the Korean War story of the Turkish Brigade at Wawon and Kunu-ri.
The battle of Kunu-ri was fought in late November 1950, when the Turkish Brigade Korea contingent, about 5,000 Turks of the Turkish Brigade, was sent east of Kunu-ri to fill the hole left by the South Korean Second Corps on the Chongchon River front.
This Korean War documentary covers the battle of Wawon, the battle of the Chongchon River, the Chinese 38th Army, the 2nd Infantry Division and the Gauntlet Korea road south of the Kunu-ri crossroads.

 

[GoatsMilk]

on a side note.



Marxist cultures have this perverse nature of constantly trying to rewrite history. Its a dirty godless ideology.

 

[Beijingwalker]

on a side note.



Marxist cultures have this perverse nature of constantly trying to rewrite history. Its a dirty godless ideology.

These were said by US commanders there in Korea about Turkish troops. Your ally officers.

 

[Beijingwalker]

 

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My Uncle was one of 5.455 Turks


Outnumbered by overwhelming odds, the Turkish soldiers engaged in fierce hand to hand and bayonet combat, delaying the massive Chinese advance for three critical days.


During the battles of Wawon and Kunuri in late November 1950, the Turkish Brigade sacrificed itself to save the US 8th Army (specifically the US 2nd Infantry Division) from total encirclement and annihilation when hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops launched a massive, unexpected counteroffensive

731 Turkish Soldiers were martyred

Why Chinese Soldiers Dreaded the Turkish Brigade in Korea​

 

[Beijingwalker]

 

[GoatsMilk]

give it a few years and the chinese will claim their century of humilation was actually a century of humiliation for the European invaders.

their relentless at spamming total nonsense.

the more they spam, the more their generally disliked while they think their winning an information war.

 

[Beijingwalker]

Not from Chinese source. Those comments were made by US officers in Korea, not from enemy sides which would be regarded as smearing opponents.

 

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The Chinese plan to encircle and destroy the U.S. military from the rear collapsed thanks to the tenacious resistance of the Turkish Brigade.

This enabled the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division and other UN units to find a corridor through which they could withdraw to the south


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In this battle, the Turkish Brigade lost approximately 20% of its total strength ( in terms of those killed, wounded, or missing ) and was forced to abandon the bulk of its heavy equipment. Yet, this historic sacrifice has been recorded in military circles as the epic that saved the U.S. Army and served as one of the primary factors in Türkiye’s admission to NATO in 1952.

 

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TURKS wrote an epic with 5,455 soldiers; with 545,000 Turkish soldiers, we could have conquered North Korea.

 

[Beijingwalker]

The Chinese plan to encircle and destroy the U.S. military from the rear collapsed thanks to the tenacious resistance of the Turkish Brigade.

This enabled the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division and other UN units to find a corridor through which they could withdraw to the south


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In this battle, the Turkish Brigade lost approximately 20% of its total strength ( in terms of those killed, wounded, or missing ) and was forced to abandon the bulk of its heavy equipment. Yet, this historic sacrifice has been recorded in military circles as the epic that saved the U.S. Army and served as one of the primary factors in Türkiye’s admission to NATO in 1952.

A defeat is a defeat, that brigade ceased to exist after the battle

 

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A defeat is a defeat, that brigade ceased to exist after the battle

In the literature of military history, the Battles of Kunuri and Wawon are regarded as a tactical withdrawal , involving some losses (218 martyrs, 455 wounded, 94 missing) to be sure but also as a monumental strategic victory.

The Turkish Brigade was not completely annihilated on the battlefield. rather, it successfully fulfilled the critical delaying mission expected of it.

 

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The primary mission assigned to the Turkish Brigade ( 5,455 soldiers ) was not to hold the area permanently against 100,000+ Chinese troops, but rather to slow down the advancing Chinese army and buy time for UN-American forces.

The Turkish brigade accomplished its tasks more than successfully.