When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

When historical events are involved in their biography, overt retcons may be used to accommodate this ; a character who served in the army during World War II might have his service record retconned to place him in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, etc.

When the occupation ended in 1945, Korean martial arts schools ( kwans ) began to open in Korea under various influences.

When it began, North and South Korea existed as provisional governments competing for control over the Korean peninsula, due to the division of Korea by outside powers.

When the early months of the Korean War showed how poorly prepared the Defense Department was, Truman fired Secretary Louis A. Johnson and named Marshall as Secretary of Defense in September 1950.

When he arrived and proceeded to meet his Russian colleague, An Jung-geun, a Korean nationalist and independence activist, fired six shots at him.

When Mao's eldest son was killed in the Korean War, his widow accused Jiang of feeling " immense ecstasy ".

When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the Canadian Defense Production Ministry initiated establishment of a turbine and compressor blade production forge plant, with The Steel Improvement and Forge Company being the successful bidder.

When Lee, who was running against Chang Myon ( the ambassador to the United States during the Korean War ) won the vote with a wide margin, the opposition claimed the election was rigged.

When a committee member asked him who won the Korean War, his response was blunt: " The Communists.

When Royal azaleas have turned pink in the end of May, it looks like Sobaeksan wears a pink Jeogori ( Korean traditional jacket ).

When he was sworn in as the eighth President of South Korea on 25 February 1998, it marked the first time in Korean history that the ruling party peacefully transferred power to a democratically elected opposition victor.

When Korean Empire came under Japanese rule in 1910, the name reverted to Joseon ( officially, the Japanese pronunciation Chōsen ).

When referring to both North Korean and South Korean nationals, the transcription of phonetic English Korean (, Korian ) may be used because a reference to a Chōsen national may be interpreted as a North Korean national instead.

When boys or girls are between the ages of fifteen and twenty, boys wear gat, a Korean traditional hat made of bamboo and horsehair, and girls do their hair in chignon with binyeo, a Korean traditional ornamental hairpin.

When the Korean War ended in 1953, small numbers of students and professionals entered the United States.

When the Korean War ended on July 27, 1953, the B-29s had flown over 21, 000 sorties, nearly 167, 000 tons of bombs had been dropped, and 34 B-29s had been lost in combat ( 16 to fighters, four to flak, and fourteen to other causes ).

When the time came to move tactical air units to Korean airfields, Fifth Air Force did not deploy its permanent wings because they were heavily committed to the air defense of Japan.

When the Korean War ended, Rockwell decided to become a graphic designer.

When the Korean Empire was annexed in 1910, the House of Yi was mediatized as a kingship ( 王 ).

When Wang started his campaign against Xiongnu, he requisitioned the forces of Korean tribes within Xin borders.

When a vessel is in a narrow channel or on a lee shore so that there is no room to tack the vessel in a conventional manner an anchor attached to the lee quarter may be dropped from the lee bow.

When told that the women were to sit on the shoulders of the men to reach the shore, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá took a chair and carried the women to the bay of Acre.

When Mountbatten was aboard en route to Donegal Bay, just a few hundred yards from the shore, the bomb was detonated.

When later Christ appeared at the Lake of Genesareth John was also the first of the seven disciples present who recognized his Master standing on the shore ( John 21: 7 ).

When the tsunami's wave peak reaches the shore, the resulting temporary rise in sea level is termed run up.

When looking at a sea from a shore, the part of the sea closest to the horizon is called the offing.

When Odysseus and Nestor walk together along the shore of the sounding sea ( Iliad IX. 182 ) their prayers are addressed " to the great Sea-god who girdles the world.

When the water levels are low, Antelope Island becomes connected to the shore as a peninsula, as do Goose Islands, Browns Island, and some of the other islands.

When a source of that period speaks of stopping or trading at East Cape, either of these locations may be meant, or occasionally the Yupik village Naukan on the southeast shore of the cape, which had less trade because it lacked a good anchorage.

When the raven responds with its typical " Nevermore ", he shrieks and commands the raven to return to the " Plutonian shore ", though it never moves.

When they start for the other shore, they are spotted by the German defenders.

( When leaving the following day he saw aborigines on an opposite shore, but didn't communicate with them.

When he first attempted to cross he was confronted by a small group of men from the Harrison County Legion firing artillery from the shore and armed men aboard the river boat Lady Pike.

When Van Buren came through Plainfield on a swing to shore up his popularity for the 1844 election, a group of perpetrators set up the incident.

When this action dried out Portage Creek on 14 May 1871, the settlement, which had only the week before been designated as Onekama with a Post Office under that name, moved to the previously submerged land at the northwestern shore of the lake near an earlier settlement called " Brookfield ".

When this reached the shore, on Cape Breton Island, the government sent out an icebreaker to bring aid.

* Tokeneke Club – When developers of Tokeneke were trying to sell real estate there, they found that ensuring access to a beach removed some hesitation on the part of prospective buyers, so they founded the Tokeneke Beach Club in 1907, acquiring " a small stretch of shore on which stood a dilapidated double-decker bathhouse and a broken pier ," soon replaced.

When the boat hits a stationary rock and is destroyed, the fight continues on shore.

When the Crown realized that settlers from Virginia had already crossed the bay to begin settling the southern tip of the eastern shore, the grant was revised to include the eastern shore only as far south as a line drawn east from the Potomac River.

When Number Six temporarily escapes from The Village, he arrives on shore beneath the cliffs of Beachy Head.

When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,

When World War II came, he found himself, to his great disappointment, in a shore billet at the Naval Gun Factory in Washington, D. C. After persistent effort on his part, he received orders to join the fighting in the South Pacific.

When very large prey is killed, such as swans, the prey may be dragged pulled along the surface of the water to the shore to be consumed.

When Europeans first arrived they rowed to shore in longboats, facing backwards while rowing the boats to shore.