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To: Snickering Hound
Philippines in 41'-42' he was saddled with the incompetent Brereton in command of his Air Forces who when ordered to disperse the B-17's instead kept most of them at Clark so he could party with their officers and hit on their wives.

To quote the general himself, "If it's right at the top, it's right at the bottom."

Inchon was brilliant, but it was negated by his stubborn refusal to accept the reality presented to him by his intelligence officers that a half million Chinese were surrounding our troops.

128 posted on 06/22/2018 1:25:51 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Hugin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Almond

The China intervention was a screw up by Almond dispersing X Corp.

And as the General on the ground he was telling MacArthur in Tokyo not to worry about the Chinese.


133 posted on 06/22/2018 1:32:45 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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