Kansas Korean War Memorial

Kansas service men and women of the United States Armed Forces served in the Korean War, and those from the state who lost their lives are remembered for making the supreme sacrifice on the battlefields of North and South Korea so that the Republic of South Korea would remain free. The war lasted from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. On June 25, 1950, communist North Korea, backed by the Soviet Union and China, crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded the Republic of South Korea in an effort to spread totalitarian communism. Armed forces of South Korea, the United States of America, and fifteen other nations under United Nations Command repelled the invasion. Fighting continued for three years from the Pusan Perimeter in southern Korea to the Yalu River in northern Korea in one of history's bitterest conflicts, and after four million civilian and military casualties, the United Nations and North Korea signed a truce on July 27, 1953, allowing South Korea to retain its freedom and independence. The memorial also includes the American Creed, composed by William T. Page in 1917, and records Kansas deaths in the war as 254 killed in action in the United States Army, 60 in the United States Marine Corps, 10 in the United States Navy, and 16 in the United States Air Force, along with 73 Army, 5 Marine Corps, 7 Navy, and 12 Air Force POW-MIA deaths from Kansas.

Wichita, Kansas · United States