Battle of Old Baldy

Battle of Old Baldy
	Part of the Korean War
	; Map of the Old Baldy area
Date	June 26, 1952 – March 26, 1953
Location	Yeoncheon County, Korea, 38°13′43″N 127°0′13″E / 38.22861°N 127.00361°E
Result	Korean victory in 1952 action; Chinese victory in 1953 action
Belligerents
South Korea; United Nations Colombia; United States;	China
Strength
38,000[citation needed]	20,000[citation needed]
Casualties and losses
US:; 1,952 casualties; 307 killed; Colombian:; 97 killed; 33 Wounded	3,000+ killed and wounded[citation needed]

The Battle of Old Baldy was a series of five engagements for Hill 266 in west-central Korea. They occurred over a period of 10 months in 1952–1953, though there was also vicious fighting both before and after these engagements.

^ "Old Baldy, Hill 266, sometimes called Suicide Hill, Setting up Barbed Wire Entanglements". www.koreanwaronline.com. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
^ Alvaro Valencia Tovar, Gabriel Puyana García (2003) En Corea por la Libertad y la Gloria, Imprenta de las Fuerzas Militares, Bogotá, ISBN 958-33-5419-8

[1] "Old Baldy, Hill 266, sometimes called Suicide Hill, Setting up Barbed Wire Entanglements". www.koreanwaronline.com. Retrieved 6 June 2017.

[Gloria_2003-2] Alvaro Valencia Tovar, Gabriel Puyana García (2003) En Corea por la Libertad y la Gloria, Imprenta de las Fuerzas Militares, Bogotá, ISBN 958-33-5419-8

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