The book Korea: Canada’s Forgotten War outlines the cost:
The
morning after an artillery attack in Korea in November of 1951,
Canadian troops wait to take a soldier's body away for burial.
© Government of Canada. Reproduced with the permission of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada (2013).
In the Korean War of the 1950s, China's military aid to Pyongyang prevented the US from defeating North Korea.[1]
The Chinese troops fighting in the Korean conflict lacked heavy artillery or air support and many other materials. Their small arms were mostly captured from former enemies.[2] "The United Nations placed an embargo, with which Hong Kong had also to comply, on trade with China in a wide range of strategic goods." However, strategic goods were still shipped to China from Hong Kong and smuggling of goods from Macao to China took place. Macau served as a transshipment centre for petroleum and munitions into China during and after the Korean War in violation of a UN-imposed embargo.
Enlisted
Many of these images of men in civilian clothes enlisting to serve in Korea were taken at recruiting offices as the army expanded in the summer of 1950. All died in Korea, or in Canada from wounds suffered overseas.
Many of these images of men in civilian clothes enlisting to serve in Korea were taken at recruiting offices as the army expanded in the summer of 1950. All died in Korea, or in Canada from wounds suffered overseas.
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