29th Infantry Division

Walker ordered the 24th Division, despite its deficiencies in manpower and equipment after the loss of Taejon, to serve as a blocking force in the area from Chinju in deep south-central Korea northward to Kumchang.

Two battalions of the 29th Infantry, then stationed on Okinawa, and the ROK 17th Regiment would reinforce the 24th Division.

On 25 July, the North Korean 4th Division moved south from Taejon with the intent of supporting the 6th Division in an envelopment of the United Nations' left flank and driving to Pusan.

The 4th pushed as far as the Anui-Kocheng area, about 50 miles southwest of Taiku, by the end of July.

The First Corps, 24th Infantry Division, ROK First Infantry Division, and British 27th Commonwealth Brigade was on Eighth Army's left.

Ninth Corps, 25th Infantry Division, Second Infantry Division, and the Turkish Brigade was in the center, while the ROK Second Corps, with its Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Infantry Divisions, was on the eastern flank.

The First Cavalry Division and the British 29th Infantry Brigade were in reserve, along with the U.S. 187th Regimental Combat Team, Airborne.

The First Corps attacked west and northwest towards Chongju and Taechon, while Ninth Corps headed north toward Unsan, Onjong, and Huichang.

And also how little the average foot soldier knows, regardless of how much intel we have.

It reminds me of how Clarence Huebner, the Big Red One commander, and actually kind of the assault commander at Omaha Beach overall, because he controls the 229th Division regiments that are going ashore.

He doesn't even know that there's elements of the 352nd Infantry Division there until D-Day morning.

John, 352nd, that's a German unit.

Walker ordered the 24th Division, despite its deficiencies in manpower and equipment after the loss of Daejeon, to serve as a blocking force in the area from Jinju in deep south central Korea northward to Kumchang.

Two battalions of the 29th Infantry, then stationed on Okinawa, and the ROK's 17th Regiment, would reinforce the 24th Division.

On 25 July, the North Korean 4th Division moved south from Daejeon with the intent of supporting the 6th Division in an envelopment of the United Nations' left flank and driving to Busan.

The 4th pushed as far as the Anhui-Kocheng area, about 50 miles southwest of Taikoo, by the end of July.

The 1st Corps, 24th Infantry Division, ROK 1st Infantry Division, and British 27th Commonwealth Brigade was on 8th Army's left.

9th Corps, 25th Infantry Division, 2nd Infantry Division, and the Turkish Brigade was in the center, while the ROK 2nd Corps, with its 6th, 7th, and 8th Infantry Divisions, was on the eastern flank.

The 1st Cavalry Division and the British 29th Infantry Brigade were in reserve, along with the U.S. 187th Regimental Combat Team, Airborne.

The 1st Corps attacked west and northwest towards Chongzhu and Taichung, while 9th Corps headed north toward Unsan, Onjang, and Huichang.

That's how tough the Battle of Pointe du Hoc was.

And it kept going that way until the 8th of June when the 5th Ranger Battalion, along with elements of the 29th Division, came in, come up from Omaha Beach and relieved the Pointe And what's interesting about that is that they said to me, one of the toughest battles that we ever had was against our own men because there was a friendly firefight.

Some of the men in the 5th as well as the 29th, it was mainly the 29th, as well as the tank battalion, didn't realize that they were dealing with Rangers because they were firing the captured MG-42s.

and the tanks fired into the Ranger lines, and there was a massive firefight that took place.

Kevin and I, in particular, did something like the short snippet videos that you can get just by scanning your phone with a QR code over the thing.

So Kevin handles the 29th Division side.

I handle the 1st Division side.

Of course, the person who took the videos is our amazing producer also from World War II Live, Mark Festoso.

Oh, what about over here? And I really like that.

It represents both divisions very, very well in great detail.

I think our friend Joe Balkowski is and was and would be very, very happy about how the 29th Division is portrayed, just as I'm happy with the 1st Division.

There's just a lot of attention to that kind of important detail, plus the attached units, which is just...

I looked.

The 29th Infantry.

His symbol says 29th Infantry when he gets off the plane.

I've

got a lot of...

And so he's like, I won this in Italy.

Which, first of all...

The 29th Infantry didn't go to Italy, but say they did.