52nd Field Artillery Battalion Least Pins and Buttons

Upon the initial count, Task Force Smith suffered 20 killed in action, 130 wounded in action or missing in action, and around 36 captured. After the end of the war, the figures were revised to 60 dead, 21 wounded and 82 captured, 32 of whom died in captivity. That casualty count accounted for 40% of Task Force Smith.

Delaying invasion of South Korea 2 July 1950: Pusan, South Korea; 52d FAH arrives ovemight from Japan via LSTs, unloads a~d moves north by train toward Pyongtaek. 52d FA(-) consists of Battery A with six 105mm howitzers, Half of Hqs Battery and half of Svc Battery. 4 July 1950; Pyongtaek, South Korea; Battery A. 52d FA attached to Task Force Smith (B and C com panies, 1/21 st Inf. 24th Division). 5 July 1950: Osan, South Korea; A little after eight in the moming, Battery A, 52d FA fires the first American artillery round of the Korean War. Battery A has only 6 HEAT2 rounds. The fiv~ 105mm howitzers account for five North Korean tanks before the battery is overrun and the gun$ lost. The sixth 105mm howitzer had been left behind at Pyongtae

The 6 guns from the 52nd Field Artillery Battalion played a critical part in slowing the North Korean Armored attack in the Battle of Osan Korea. There was a limited number of HEAT shells for the unit's 105 mm howitzers, crew-served weapons that could defeat T-34/85 tanks from the Soviet Union, had not been distributed to the US Army forces in Korea.

Delaying invasion of South Korea 2 July 1950: Pusan, South Korea; 52d FAH arrives ovemight from Japan via LSTs, unloads a~d moves north by train toward Pyongtaek. 52d FA(-) consists of Battery A with six 105mm howitzers, Half of Hqs Battery and half of Svc Battery. 4 July 1950; Pyongtaek, South Korea; Battery A. 52d FA attached to Task Force Smith (B and C com panies, 1/21 st Inf. 24th Division). 5 July 1950: Osan, South Korea; A little after eight in the moming, Battery A, 52d FA fires the first American artillery round of the Korean War. Battery A has only 6 HEAT2 rounds. The fiv~ 105mm howitzers account for five North Korean tanks before the battery is overrun and the gun$ lost. The sixth 105mm howitzer had been left behind at Pyongtae