Episode 03 - Kap'yong: The Forgotten Battle

Canadian soldiers tell how their small unit repelled a massive Red Chinese attack, in a decisive battle of the Korean War.

On 22 April 1951, the invading Chinese Army threatened Seoul, capital of South Korea. The Chinese forces had pushed back the United Nations defenders, but they still had to confront a heavily outnumbered Canadian infantry battalion of determined volunteers.

Kap'yong is simultaneously one of the finest small unit actions in Canadian history and a neglected engagement in a war that has never received due attention in Canada. In Kap'yong: The Forgotten Battle, Canadian and Chinese veterans reflect on those fateful events of over 60 years ago.