Korean War - An Automobile Accident
Time: Saturday Dec 23, 1950
Place: North Korea
Details: UN morale hit rock bottom when Lieutenant General Walton Walker, commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, was killed on 23 December 1950 in an automobile accident.
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