The Division initially consisted of the 2nd,
7th, and
19th Brigade.
Korean War The 2nd Infantry Regiment was originally activated as the 2nd Regiment on February 28, 1946, at
Taejon and was first commanded by Lt. Col. Lee Hyong Kun. The unit was initially assigned to the 1st Brigade in December 1947 and was later reassigned to the 6th Division when it was activated in May 1949. On June 25, 1950, the 6th Division took part in the
Battle of Chuncheon during the North Korean attack. The division became part of
II Corps after the first fall of
Seoul. It was part of the defensive line to slow the North Korean advance from
Seoul to
Taejon. Fought in the
Battle of Pusan Perimeter. The 6th Division, meeting little opposition and traveling fast up the
Chongchon River valley, reached Huichon, nearly sixteen miles north of
Kujang-dong, on the night of October 23, 1950. Passing through
Onjong, twenty-six miles from
Huich'on, during the night of the twenty-fourth, the
7th Regiment, 6th Division, turned north and advanced toward
Chosan, fifty miles away on the
Yalu River. A reinforced reconnaissance platoon from the 7th Regiment entered Chosan the next morning and found the North Koreans retreating across the Yalu into China over a narrow floating footbridge. On October 25, in the ROK II Corps sector, the 3d Battalion,
2d Regiment,
6th Division, started northwest from
Onjong, about fifty miles from
Yalu River, toward
Pukchin. Eight miles west of Onjong the 3d Battalion encountered what was thought to be a small force of North Koreans but was, in reality, a Communist Chinese forces (CCF) trap, in which CCF troops destroyed the 3d Battalion as an organized force. On the evening of the next day the division ordered its
7th Regiment to withdraw south. Before it could do so, however, it needed supplies, which were airdropped on the twenty-eighth. As the 7th Regiment headed south the following morning, it ran into an enemy roadblock about twenty miles south of
Kojang. After the Chinese intervention and attacks in November 1950, the U.S.
2nd Infantry Division, the
Turkish Brigade, and the ROK 6th,
7th, and
8th Infantry Divisions were shattered units that would need extensive rest and refitting to recover combat effectiveness. ==See also==