General Walton Walker Memorial
Details:
Adjacent to the hotel. Monument
The moral includes a bronze relief and a raised granite monument with a polished marble inscription.
The memorial remembers the Commander of the 8th Army, General Walton Walker, who was killed in an accident on December 23, 1950 nearby in Seoul. Gernal Walker was a veteran of WW1, WW2 and the Korean War.
From the Army.mil website:
A veteran of World War I and World War II, General Walker made an indelible mark on modern military history during the early days of the Korean War.
Walker achieved his greatest feat inside the 80-mile-long by 50-mile-wide perimeter that U.N. forces defended in Korea during the summer of 1950. Often called the "Pusan Perimeter," the area was the last line of defense against invading communist North Korean forces. It protected the critical supply port of Pusan that U.N. forces used to bolster their combat power.
Outnumbered and outgunned by invading enemy forces, Walker led Eighth Army as it moved its scant forces around the battlefield and repelled attack after attack.
Through its hard-fought defense of the Pusan Perimeter, Eighth Army enabled Gen. Douglas MacArthur to conduct the decisive amphibious landing at Incheon that turned the tide of the war. Within days of the Incheon amphibious landing, Eighth Army broke out of the Pusan Perimeter and drove enemy forces all the way past the North Korean capital of Pyongyang in less than a month.
A marker nearby marks the spot where General Walker was killed. See site Seoul- Dobong Station for more information.
Monument Text:
The text on the plaque is written in English and Korea and reads in part:
“We Koreans cherish the memory of General Walker because he was the only person who insisted on defending the Korean Peninsula, when the atmosphere in Washington in the early stage of the Korean War was complete withdrawal of all United Nations Forces from the peninsula.”
The text then includes a history of General Walker's military service.
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
8th US Army
Wars:
Korean War
Battles:
Pusan Perimeter
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