Korean War History of the Canadian Army
korean war memorial wall.
canada sent 26,791 canadians serve in korean war, 7,000 more remaining supervise ceasefire until end of 1955. of these 1,558 became casualties, including 516 deaths, due combat. canada s participation included several naval vessels , aircraft, in addition 25th canadian infantry brigade served part of 1st commonwealth division.
canada s military revitalized result of korean war. planned changeover us-designed weapons equipment had been planned 1950s, emergency in korea forced use of war stocks of second world war–vintage british-designed weapons. in late 1950s, canada adopted variety of weapons of european, british , design rather proceeding planned americanization.
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