Battle of Bloody Ridge

38°15′18″N 128°02′16.8″E / 38.25500°N 128.038000°E / 38.25500; 128.038000

Battle of Bloody Ridge
Part of the Korean War
Map of the Punchbowl, Heartbreak Ridge and Bloody Ridge
Date 18 August  – 5 September 1951 Location Yanggu County, Gangwon Province, South Korea Result United Nations and South Korean victory
Belligerents
United Nations  United States  South Korea	North Korea
Units involved
2nd Infantry Division 36th Regiment
Casualties and losses
2,700[1]	US Claim: 8,000 dead 7,000 wounded[1]

The Battle of Bloody Ridge was a ground combat battle that took place during the Korean War from 18 August to 5 September 1951.

By the summer of 1951, the Korean War had reached a stalemate as peace negotiations began at Kaesong. The opposing armies faced each other across a line which ran from east to west, through the middle of the Korean peninsula, located in hills a few miles north of the 38th Parallel in the central Korean mountain range. United Nations and the North Korean Korean People's Army (KPA) and Chinese People's Volunteer Army (PVA) forces jockeyed for position along this line, clashing in several relatively small but intense and bloody battles. Bloody Ridge began as an attempt by UN forces to seize a ridge of hills which they believed were being used as observation posts to call in artillery fire on a UN supply road.