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Second Phase Offensive information


Second Phase Campaign
Part of the Korean War
Date25 November – 24 December 1950[1]
Location
North Korea
Result

Chinese victory

  • Expulsion of UN forces from North Korea
Belligerents

Second Phase Offensive United Nations (UNC)

  • Second Phase Offensive United States
  • Second Phase Offensive South Korea
  • Second Phase Offensive Turkey
  • Second Phase Offensive United Kingdom
Second Phase Offensive China
Second Phase Offensive North Korea
Commanders and leaders
United Nations Douglas MacArthur
United States Walton H. Walker
United States Edward Almond
United States Oliver P. Smith
China Peng Dehuai
China Han Xianchu
China Song Shilun
Units involved

United States Eighth Army

  • United States I Corps
    • United States 1st Cavalry Division
    • United States 24th Infantry Division
    • First Republic of Korea 1st Infantry Division
    • United Kingdom 27th Commonwealth Brigade
    • United Kingdom 29th Independent Infantry Brigade
  • United States IX Corps
    • United States 2nd Infantry Division
    • United States 25th Infantry Division
    • Turkey 1st Turkish Armed Forces Command

First Republic of Korea Republic of Korea Army

  • I Corps
    • 3rd Infantry Division
    • Capital Division
  • II Corps
    • 6th Infantry Division
    • 7th Infantry Division
    • 8th Infantry Division

United States Fifth Air Force
United States X Corps

  • 1st Marine Division
  • 3rd Infantry Division
  • 7th Infantry Division
  • 1st Marine Air Wing

China People's Volunteer Army

  • 20th Army
    • 58th Division
    • 59th Division
    • 60th Division
    • 89th Division
  • 26th Army
    • 76th Division
    • 77th Division
    • 78th Division
    • 88th Division
  • 27th Army
    • 79th Division
    • 80th Division
    • 81st Division
    • 94th Division
  • 38th Army
    • 112th Division
    • 113th Division
    • 114th Division
  • 39th Army
    • 115th Division
    • 116th Division
    • 117th Division
  • 40th Army
    • 118th Division
    • 119th Division
    • 120th Division
  • 42nd Army
    • 124th Division
    • 125th Division
    • 126th Division
  • 50th Army
    • 148th Division
    • 149th Division
    • 150th Division
  • 66th Army
    • 196th Division
    • 197th Division
    • 198th Division
Strength
358,091[1]: 46  300,000–390,000[2][3]
Casualties and losses

Second Phase Offensive US:
24,000 casualties (including 4,538 killed)[4]
Second Phase Offensive ROK:
12,000 (Chinese estimate)[1]: 52–53 [5]

Total: 36,000 casualties

Chinese estimate: 30,000 battle casualties (including 9,549 killed)
50,000 non-battle casualties.

Total:80,000 casualties

The Second Phase Offensive (25 November – 24 December 1950) or Second Phase Campaign (Chinese: 第二次战役; pinyin: Dìèr Cì Zhànyì) of the Korean War was an offensive by the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (PVA) against United Nations Command (U.S./UN) forces, most of which were soldiers of South Korea and the United States.[2]: 23–24  The two major engagements of the campaign were the Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River in the western part of North Korea and the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the eastern part of North Korea.

Casualties were heavy on both sides. The battles were fought in temperatures as low as −30 °C (−22 °F)[6] and casualties from frostbite may have exceeded those from battle wounds. On 23 December 1950 Lieutenant General Walton Walker died in a vehicle accident in Seoul while in command of the U.S. 8th Army. He was the highest ranked U.S. military service member killed in the Korean War.

U.S. intelligence and air reconnaissance failed to detect the large numbers of Chinese soldiers present in North Korea. Thus, the UN units, the Eighth United States Army on the west and the X Corps on the east, kicked off the "Home-by-Christmas" offensive on 24 November with "unwarranted confidence...believing that they comfortably outnumbered enemy forces."[2]: 60  The Chinese attacks came as a surprise. The Home-by-Christmas offensive, with the objective of conquering all of North Korea and ending the war, was quickly abandoned in light of the massive Chinese assault.

The Second Phase Offensive forced all UN forces to go on the defensive and retreat. China had recaptured nearly all of North Korea by the end of the offensive.

  1. ^ a b c Li, Xiaobing (2014). China's Battle for Korea: The 1951 Spring Offensive. Indiana University Press. p. 45.
  2. ^ a b c Mossman, Billy (1990). Ebb and Flow: November 1950–July 1951. Center of Military History, United States Army. pp. 54–55. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ Appleman, Roy (1992). South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu. Center of Military History, U.S. Army. p. 770. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Some authorities estimate Chinese forces as high as 390,000 men, See Li, 46, but the attrition during their long march southward to the battlefield probably depleted their numbers and 300,000 or slightly more seems the most likely estimate.
  4. ^ Ecker, Richard E. (2005). Korean Battle Chronology: Unit-by-unit United States Casualty Figures and Medal of Honor Citations. McFarland & Company. p. 62 ISBN 978-0786419807.
  5. ^ Xue, Yan (徐焰) (1990). 第一次较量:抗美援朝战争的历史回顾与反思 [First Confrontation: Reviews and Reflections on the History of War to Resist America and Aid Korea] (in Chinese (China)). Chinese Radio and Television Publishing House. pp. 59–60.
  6. ^ Battle of Chosin Reservoir Archived 2022-01-06 at the Wayback Machine. Estimates of the lowest temperature encountered vary.

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