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Korean War - A Defensive perimeter at the port city of Hungnam

Time: Monday Dec 11, 1950

Place: Hungnam, North Korea

Details: X Corps managed to establish a defensive perimeter at the port city of Hungnam on 11 December and were able to evacuate by 24 December in order to reinforce the badly depleted US Eighth Army to the south.

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