1 Aug.-31 Oct. 1951
U.N. launches limited attacks to straighten lines: Bloody, Heartbreak Ridge battles.
27 Nov. 1951
Truce talks resume at Panmunjom; cease-fire line agreed upon, at line of contact.
Nov. 1951-April 1952
Stalemate along Korean battlefront during discussions at Panmunjom.
2 April 1952
Screening of U.N. POW's begins; Koje-do riots commence.
7 May 1952
General Dodd captured by Communist POW's at Koje-do.
12 May-12 June 1952
Mark Clark replaces Ridgway at FECOM. General Boatner quells disturbances on Koje.
June 1952-Oct. 1952
Stalemate along battlefront while truce talks deadlocked on pow repatriation question. Hill battles rage on Baldy, Whitehorse, elsewhere.
8 Oct. 1952
Truce talks recessed at Panmunjom; complete deadlock.
Oct.-Nov. 1952
Heavy pressure on ROK's in center of line.
ROK Army comes of age.
Nov. 1952
Indian proposal on POW's in U.N.
Dec. 1952
President-elect Eisenhower comes to Korea; intensification of U.N. psychological warfare.
Dec., Jan., 1953
Continuation of stalemate; hill battles.
11 Feb. 1953
Maxwell Taylor replaces Van Fleet at Eighth Army.
22 Feb. 1953
U.N. Command again proposes exchange of sick and wounded POW's.
5 March 1953
Death of Josef Stalin; struggle for power in Kremlin disaffection in Soviet satellites.
28 March 1953
Communists agree to pow exchange proposed by U.N.C.
30 March 1953
Chou En-lai indicates Communists will accept Indian U.N. proposal of November, 1952. Resumption of truce talks at Panmunjom.
16-18 April 1953
Battle for Pork Chop Hill.
20-26 April 1953
Exchange of sick and wounded POW's at Panmunjom.
27 April 1953
Resumption of plenary sessions at Panmunjom.
May 1953
Savage fighting along stalemated line while details of truce ironed out at Panmunjom.
4 June 1953
Communists agree in effect to all U.N. truce proposals.
25 June 1953
Robertson begins 'Little Truce Talks' with Rhee to secure ROK acceptance of armistice; CCF launch massive attacks against ROK divisions.
7 July 1953
ROK agrees to truce terms.
27 July 1953
Cease-fire signed at Panmunjom. Fighting ends.
4 Sept. 1953
Screening and repatriation of POW's begins at Freedom Village, Panmunjom.
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Glossary of Principal Weapons
Because of the limited nature of the Korean War, all combatants chose to fight it largely with surplus weapons from World War II. No startling developments, either in weaponry or tactics, came out of the conflict. While the United States made innovations and great improvements in logistical techniques, cold-weather clothing, and medical service, the only wholly new developments were the use of helicopters for reconnaissance, transport, and evacuation on a large scale, and the employment of jet aircraft in combat. The most modern jet, the F-86 Sabre, was thrown into the aerial war only when Communist forces first employed a first-rate, modern aircraft, the MIG-15, in what was essentially a field test.
Throughout the entire course of the war, weapons, radios, and vehicles, on both sides, remained of World
