What the records say
- When
- 12 Aug 1950
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 75
- Coordinates
- 36.00° N, 128.00° E
- Description
- War crime of the Korean War
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Bloody Gulch massacre
War crime during the Korean War
The Bloody Gulch massacre was a war crime that took place in the Korean War on August 12, 1950, in "Bloody Gulch", west of Masan, South Korea. After a successful attack on two US artillery battalions that killed or injured hundreds of US soldiers, North Korea's Korean People's Army (KPA) 13th Regiment then killed 75 US Army prisoners of war.
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