ABSTRACT
The United Nations Command (UNC) was an unprecedented coalition and an important factor in the outcome of the fighting. While the United States bore the bulk of the burden of funding and of administrative and logistical support of the non-Korean military force, the proportion of non-U.S. elements was greater than is generally perceived. In the summer of 1951, when most of the composition of the coalition had been set, Eighth Army had seven U.S. divisions with about 63 infantry and seven tank battalions, ten ROK Army divisions and a ROK Marine regiment with a total of about 94 infantry battalions, and 20 infantry battalions from other UN nations who thus constituted close to 25 percent (20 of 83) of the non-ROK infantry battalions. These numbers hide the 10,000 Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army (KATUSA) soldiers in the U.S. and other UN units and 30,000 Korean Service Corps (KSC) men. This chapter provides some historical details and historiographical guidance on the study of this important aspect of the Korean War.
