The United States was caught by surprise when heavily-armed North Korean troops and tanks poured into South Korea on June 25, 1950. But the Chicago Tribune had predicted America’s enemies would ...

Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of the 33rd U.S. President Harry Truman, remembers his grandfather as "grandpa" who was a lifelong reader and made four-year-old Daniel and his younger brother read ...

President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur, commander of U.N. forces during the Korean War, meet face to face or the first time at Wake Island, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, on ...

The Korean War was wedged between World War ... President Harry Truman ordered American land and naval forces to come to South Korea's aid. U.S. forces in Japan were quickly shuttled to the ...

In June 1950, President Harry Truman ordered a naval blockade of the Korean coast and authorized Gen. Douglas MacArthur to send U.S. ground troops into Korea. During the three-year war, history ...

What MacArthur meddled in was defining the strategic objective and general plan of the Korean war. Up until 10:48 on the night of April 11, when Truman finished his fateful speech, neither ...

On the 70th anniversary of the armistice that halted the Korean War, one American received a special honor in South Korea: former President Harry S. Truman, in whose memory a new, nearly 14-foot ...

The Korean War started 75 years ago and is still going by Eliot Wilson, ... President Harry Truman created a U.S. Military Advisory Group to train and support Rhee’s forces.

How the Korean War Almost Went Nuclear In 1950, Harry Truman had to decide whether to use B-29s to drop atomic bombs.

Harry Truman, a senator from Missouri, is elected Vice President. ... MacArthur was the youngest full general in U.S. history. A leading military figure of World War II and the Korean War, ...