Bloodiest Fight Since WW2 - British Forces Battle at Imjin River

On April 22, 1955, British Lieutenants Philip Curtis and Terry Waters attended church service in an abandoned Korean Temple in the windy hills of South Korea. The two men pondered silently as they prepared themselves for the battle ahead. Their regiment had been appointed to hold the line at the Imjin River at any cost, and they knew that if the front was breached, Seoul would fall again. That night, hundreds of brave British and Belgian soldiers held their positions along the hills on the South riverbank when suddenly a flare lit up the sky and revealed thousands of Chinese soldiers crossing the river in a massive abrupt attack. The men would soon be engulfed in one of the bloodiest battles in British military history. Outnumbered 7 to 1, the British soldiers and their allies tried to hold off a massive wave of Chinese soldiers that threw themselves against the UN line of defense in an attempt to breach it. It would be China’s last and largest effort to try to overwhelm the weary and numerically inferior UN task force and invade the Korean Peninsula to establish a Communist government. But the battle-hardened Gloucestershire Regiment would not give up so easily… - As images and footage of actual events are not always available, Dark Docs sometimes utilizes similar historical images and footage for dramatic effect. I do my best to keep it as visually accurate as possible. All content on Dark Docs is researched, produced, and presented in historical context for educational purposes. We are history enthusiasts and are not always experts in some areas, so please don’t hesitate to reach out to us with corrections, additional information, or new ideas. -