What the records say
- When
- 2 Jul 1950
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 40.00° N, 135.00° E
- Description
- 1950 battle
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Battle of Chumonchin Chan
1950 naval battle of the Korean War
The Battle of Chumonchin Chan or the action of 2 July 1950 was fought between surface combatants during the main phase of the Korean War. It began after an Allied flotilla encountered a Korean People's Navy supply fleet.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “le croiseur américain USS Juneau coule trois torpilleurs nord-coréens au large de Chumunjim, seule bataille navale de la guerre”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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