On October 22, 1950, British and Australian troops of the 27th Commonwealth Brigade were pushing north from Pyongyang to link up with the American paratroopers who had jumped near Sukchon two days earlier. Near the town of Yongju, they ran into the North Korean regiment that had been fighting the paratroopers. The North Koreans were dug in around an apple orchard, desperate to break out north. The 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, was sent in. What followed became one of the most famous small battles Australia fought in Korea. The Australians attacked straight through the orchard and the surrounding rice paddies. They moved fast and aggressively, clearing the North Koreans out of ditches, haystacks, and fields. One war correspondent described an Australian platoon sweeping across a paddy like hunters flushing birds, kicking over piles of straw as North Korean soldiers burst out of them. The North Korean force was shattered. Hundreds were killed or captured. Australian losses: seven wounded. None killed. It was the Australians' first major action of the war, and it earned them a reputation that would follow them all the way to Kapyong and Maryang San. Just days later, the brigade was racing toward the Chinese border.

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