Pusan: Stand or Die FROM THE PUBLISHER
Pusan: "Stand or Die" is the story of the Pusan Perimeter from the first delaying action at Osan to the breakout a few days after General MacArthur's amphibious landing at inchon. Preparation for that landing deprived U.S. troops fighting for their lives in the Pusan Perimeter with much needed reinforcements, equipment, and ammunition.
The first U.S. soldiers to fight in Korea had been occupation troops in Japan. They were out of shape physically and paid dearly for it in torrid tropic heat and on rugged mountainous terrain. Front line units were undermanned and ill-equipped. They had no anti-tank weapons or ammunition that could stop Russian tanks driven by victorious North Korean veterans of Japanese and Chinese armies.
Replacements slowly flowed from the pipeline from the states. They were mostly lightly trained teenagers. They were always outnumbered on the line where it counted. Their commander, General Walton Walker, improvised by moving "fire brigades" to critical places at critical times. The teenagers learned to "stand or die" as ordered. It was their only chance to live.
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