Korean Conflict (in Wars and Conflicts of the U.S. Navy)

Chronology of U.S. Pacific Fleet Operations, 1950–53

Medals:
Korean Service Medal
and
Korean Service Medal: Ships and Other Units (includes list of ships and units that participated)

Bibliography: Korean War Naval Operations

Documents:
Korean Combat Action Reports for Carriers
and
Korean Combat Action Reports for Carrier Air Groups and Air Task Groups (PDF files)

Photographs:
The Korean War (in Online Library of Photographic Images)

Art Exhibit: Remembering the Forgotten War: Korea, 1950–53 (Navy Art Collection Online Exhibit)

Introduction to Online Edition by Edward J. Marolda

Foreword by Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller, USN (Retired)

Preface by James A. Field, Jr.

List of Maps

List of Tables

Chapter 1 : To Korea by Sea

1. The Commodore's Treaty

2. The American Link

3. The Dominance of Japan

4. Return to Asia

Chapter 2: Policy and its Instruments

1. Divided Korea

2. Unified Defense

3. The Estimate of the Situation

Chapter 3: War Begins

1. The Decision to Intervene

2. The Far East Command

3. First Days of Naval Action

4. Air Strikes, Coastal Bombardment, Flank Patrols

Chapter 4: Help on the Way

1. The Strategic Problem

2. Troops and Supplies

3. Fighting Ships

4. Naval Logistic

5. The Marine Brigade

6. Air Transport and Air Reinforcement

Chapter 5: Into the Perimeter

1. The Korean Theater

2. 5-17 July: East Coast Bomdardment

3. 3-30 July: The Pohang Landing

4. 10-30 July: Seventh Fleet Operations

5. 7 July-2 August: Patrol Planes and Gunnery Ships

6. 23 July-6 August: The Marines Arrive

Chapter 6. Holding the Line

1. The Perimeter Takes Form

2. 26 July-13 August: Coastal Bomdardment, The Problem of Carrier Air and the Southern Spoiling Offensive

3. 6-20 August: East Coast Interdiction, Pohang, and First Naktong

4. 21-31 August: Coast Operations and Carrier Strikes

5. 1-5 September: The Enemy's Big Blast

Chapter 7: Back to the Parallel

1. 10 July-11 September: Preparing the Counterstroke

2. 15 August-21 September: North to Inchon

3. 12 September-7 October: the Clearance of South Korea

Chapter 8: On to the Border

1. 27 September-15 October: Planning the Wonsan Landing

2. 11 September-30 November: The Opening of Wonsan and Chinnampo

3. 19 October-20   November: Operations in Eastern North Korea

4. 15 October-24 November: New Plans and New Problems

Chapter 9. Retreat to the South

1. 24 November-6 December: Defeat in the West

2. 14 November-10 December: The Campaign at the Reservoir

3. 30 November-13 December: Concentration in the East

4. 11 December-24 December: The Evacuation of Hungnam

5. 7 December-1950-25 January 1951: The Second Chinese Offensive

Chapter 10:  The Second Six Months

1. February 1951: Back to the Han

2. March- April 1951: On to the Parallel

3. April-May 1951: the Communist Spring Offensive

4. June-July 1951: North to Kaesong

Chapter 11. Problems of a Policeman

1. The Unexpected Shape of War

2. Operating Problems

3. Logistic Support

4. Interservice Coordination and the Air Problem

5. The Larger Picture

6. Into the Future

Chapter 12. Two More Years

1. July 1951-February 1952: Stabilized and Peripheral War

2. March 1952-February 1953: Stalemate

3. March-July 1953: Progress, Crisis, Conclusion

A Note on Source Materials

Glossary of Naval Abbreviations