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Seventy years ago United Nations coalition troops regained control of Seoul South Korea’s war-battered capital city from Communist forces for the second time during the Korean War.
The Allies would hold Seoul for the remainder of the war.
Korea had been partitioned along the 38th Parallel after World War II. Two independent governments were in place by 1948. On June 25, 1950 troops from Communist-ruled North Korea invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
The war impacted San Diego almost from the start.
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On July 3, 1950 the first carrier air strike of the Korean War was launched from the San Diego-based aircraft carrier Valley Forge, and Marines at Camp Pendleton were ordered overseas.