of the city became Sunchon, due to a renaming rule in the early Joseon, where 'ju (州)' were changed to 'chon (川)' and became Sunchon-gun. The original...
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Sunchon Airport (순천비행장) is an airport in Pyongan-namdo, North Korea. It is 28mi or 45km northwest of Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. The airfield...
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The Sunchon tunnel massacre was a death march followed by a massacre of American POWs during the UN offensive into North Korea. The death march began...
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Sunchon National University (Acronym: SNU; Korean, 순천대학교, Suncheon Daehakgyo, colloquially Suncheondae) is a national research university founded in 1935...
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Sunchon station is a railway station in Sunch'ŏn municipal city, South P'yŏngan province, North Korea on the P'yŏngra Line of the Korean State Railway;...
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Australia in the Korean War (section Battle of Sunchon)
to Australia in November 1954. The Battle of Sunchon was an air battle fought near the city of Sunchon on 1 December 1951, 12 Gloster Meteor jets of...
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The Battle of Sunchon was an air battle fought near the city of Sunchon, North Korea on 1 December 1951, during the Korean War. Up to 14 Gloster Meteor...
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airborne troops at Sunchon. Lieutenant Colonel William M. Rodgers of the tank battalion commanded the task force. It arrived at Sunchon at 09:00 on 21 October...
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Wonsan Sunchon On the night of January 29, 1952, amid the Korean War, four American military personnel aboard two different B-29 bombers reported seeing...
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made their first of two combat jumps during the war, on 20 October at Sunchon and Sukchon. The mission was to cut the road north going to China, preventing...
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