The Story of America's "Forgotten War"

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At dawn on June 25, 1950, 90,000 Communist troops of the North Korean People's Army invaded South Korea across the 38th Parallel. On June 27, U.S. President Harry S. Truman announced that the United States would intervene in the Korean conflict to prevent a Communist takeover of an independent nation. This was the first military action of the Cold War and it must be remembered.