Triumph at Kapyong: Canada’s Pivotal Battle in Korea

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April 24th, 1951,was once a lonely, moon-lit night in Korea. On a godforsaken hill, a couple of hundred surrounded Canadian soldiers waited for the fight of their lives to begin. Soon, Chinese communist troops in their thousands, swarmed around them, plunging straight towards the Korean capital, Seoul. These Canadians were all that blocked the best way.

This is the story of the first battle by Canada’s first soldiers in the Korean War: the 2nd Battalion of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. These volunteers were straight from Central Casting: truck drivers, construction workers, kids just out of highschool, and bored farm boys. Outnumbered and outgunned, this people’s army of amateurs beat off one of the vital toughest troops on this planet.

This battle that’s change into a legend takes its name from a nearby peanut-sized village: Kapyong.

It’s change into a mythic Canadian story, excluding that is mythology that may be true and real.

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