After three years of fighting, the Korean War ended this day, July 27, 1953, with the armistice signed at Panmunjom. Part of a U.N. “police” action, the greatly outnumber American troops fought courageously against the Communist Chinese and North Korean troops, who were supplied with arms from the Soviet Union. With temperatures sometimes 40 degrees below zero and politicians preventing pursuit of the enemy, there were over 140,000 American casualties. Of her son who served in Korea, Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower said: “He has a mission to fulfill, and God will see to it that nothing will happen to him till he fulfills it.”
