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Treason in Korea - US betrayed by UN
Michael New ^ | LtCol "Bud" Farrell, USAF, ret.

Posted on 03/27/2003 3:35:46 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

"The United Nations is the Greatest Fraud in all History It's Purpose is to Destroy the United States." - Congressman John E. Rankin

When I was a young officer and jet fighter pilot flying missions in the Korean Conflict (unknowingly under the command of a Soviet General of the United Nations Security Council), I could never understand HOW THE ENEMY KNEW SO MUCH ABOUT US, as broadcast almost daily over the communist Pyongyang radio station in North Korea.

Our wives' names, children's names, Squadron Commander names, flight numbers, etc.! The North Koreans knew when we were coming, how many of us there were, what type of aircraft we were flying and even the targets we were to hit. Later I realized that the naval and ground forces suffered the same fate that we did, especially our Army and Marine infantry troops.

All of our military operations had to be forwarded by radio to the Soviet Commander of the United Nations Security Council at the United Nations Building, New York City, for approval before our forces went into action against the North Koreans and Red Chinese. The Soviet Commander of the United Nations Security Council delayed the battle plans until he used the radios in the United Nations Building in New York to relay all our "battle planning information" to Moscow, North Korea and Red China.

The enemy then contacted and relayed these same battle plans to their communist forces in the field. The enemy knew when to move from an area and when to attack our smaller fighting forces. They knew beforehand when we were coming and how many of us there were. They knew everything about us all the time - 24 hours a day!!!

I later found this same form of "treason" was used against our forces in the Vietnam War. All information regarding "every battle plan in Vietnam" was given to the North Vietnamese, Soviets (Advisors), and Viet Cong Troops in the field DURING THE ENTIRE WAR. The enemy knew our every move at all times.

Our troops were led like sheep to the slaughter in both Korea and Vietnam. Like blind fools we sent our combat plans to the enemy for approval.

There was a standing joke among us fighter pilots. "That Moscow had a file on each and every one of us." How little did we really know. Every mission, every movement was compromised! General Walt, former Commander of the United States Marine Corps, reflected upon this information in his book that was written in the early 1980's. This was never allowed to appear in any bookstore in the United States. During the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, thousands of our fighting men were mentally or physically incapacitated BECAUSE OF THIS TREASON! To this day, the Soviets (or someone from one of their satellite countries) are the only ones who can command the United Nations "World Police Forces".

Each and every one of us that served in Korea or Vietnam served under the total command of a Soviet General! Here are the names of the soviets and the dates they served as "Under-Secretary of the Security Council of the United Nations," thus the highest military commander of all United Nations fighting forces anywhere in the world, INCLUDING ALL MILITARY FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES. These names and information was obtained from the United Nations yearbooks up through 1983. Later yearbooks were not available. (All listed below are Soviet Generals holding the office of "Under-Secretary for Security and Political Affairs"):

1946-1949 Arkady Alexandrovitch Sobolev
1949-1953 Constantine E. Zinchenko
1953-1954 Dragoslov Protich
1958-1959 Antoly Dobrinin
1960-1962 George Petrovich Arkadev
1962-1963 Eugeny D. Kiselev
1963-1964 Vladimir Paulovitch Suslov
1965-1967 Alexel Efemovitch Nesternko
1968-1973 Leonid N. Kutakov
1973-1978 Arkadv N. Shevchenko
1978-1980 Mikhail D. Sytenko
1981-1983 Vlacheslav A. Ustinov
1988- Vasiliy Safronchuk

"The post for 'Political and Security Affairs' traditionally has been held by a SOVIET NATIONAL is Senior Advisor to the Secretary-General." [New York Times, May 22, 1963]

The Soviet Lt. General Alexandre Vasiliev, the Soviet Representative on the United Nations (Mini) Military Staff Committee from 1947 to January 1950, is the same General Vasiliev who took "a leave of absence from his United Nations job" and was PLACED BY THE SOVIET UNION AND RED CHINA IN COMMAND OF ALL CHINESE COMMUNIST TROOP MOVEMENTS ACROSS THE 38TH PARALLEL.

During the Korean "Police Action", Lt. General Vasiliev received all his military information and troop movements of all United Nations forces in Korea directly from his superior, Soviet General Constantine E. Zinchenko (see above, 1949-1953), who served as Under-Secretary of the Security Council of the United Nations in New York. ALL battle plans had to be APPROVED by him AHEAD OF TIME.

It was the traitor, President Harry S. Truman himself, who REFUSED TO ALLOW General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the United Nations fighting forces in Korea, to bomb the bridges at the Yalu River over which the Chinese Communist troops came by the hundreds of thousands to kill and wound our soldiers. Truman and the Soviet General in charge at the United Nations TOTALLY HANDCUFFED MacArthur in all instances.

General MacArthur was only in command of the fighting forces in Korea, not in command of the United Nations position as "Under-Secretary of the Security Council". A Soviet General held this position of POWER AND AUTHORITY OVER MACARTHUR and all the United Nations fighting forces in Korea. THE SAME WAS TRUE FOR VIETNAM.

When General MacArthur WOKE UP TO THE TREASON OF PRESIDENT TRUMAN and the Soviets in the United Nations, he executed one of the greatest military performances ever ventured in modern warfare. His dangerous but magnificent military engagement and sea landing at "Inchon" on September 15, 1950 enabled his military forces to slaughter the communist forces, destroy their massive supply dumps, and put the Red Chinese, North Koreans and their Soviet advisors on the run. [In other words, MacArthur kicked some ass!]

MacArthur never asked permission from the United Nations Security Council (Soviet General Zinchenko) to perform this SECRET military operation. MacArthur hand-picked close and loyal military officers in doing so, and they kept a tight lid on the entire operation. Originally, our forces were to never win any battles as planned by the Soviet Generals in the United Nations. But General MacArthur realized the treason and took positive action not only to save the lives of his fighting forces and destroying the enemy and their supply dumps, but also creating the "turning point" of the Korean War with his success at Inchon.

For this "positive action", General Douglas MacArthur was relieved of his command of the United Nations fighting forces in Korea by the traitor President Harry S. Truman.

President Truman feared General MacArthur so much that just prior to General MacArthur returning to the United States from Korea, Truman hid out at Camp David for over 3 weeks in fear of being arrested by General MacArthur, who was a 5-Star General and in command of all military forces in the United States.

This allowed the controlled press in the United States time to attack MacArthur on all fronts, even before he returned home from Korea. Big headlines in the monthly magazines of the United States described MacArthur "As like unto Hitler returning home to the Chancellery

With cunning control of their national news outlets over the minds of the people in the United States against MacArthur. The same man who had just saved the lives of thousands of their sons with daring military moves - against the wishes of the United Nations Command, in routing the Red Chinese and North Koreans at Inchon.

Now you know the real truth as to what really happened "behind the scenes" during the Korean Conflict between the traitor Truman and General MacArthur, the real hero!

* * *
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SPEAKS:

"I was worried by a series of directives from Washington (Truman) which were greatly decreasing the potential of my Air Force. First I was forbidden "hot" pursuit of enemy planes that attacked our own. Manchuria and Siberia were sanctuaries of inviolate protection of all enemy forces and for all enemy purposes, no matter what depredations or assaults might come from there. Then I was denied the right (by Soviet General in United Nations) to bomb the hydroelectric plants along the Yalu River. The order was broadened to include every plant in North Korea which was capable of furnishing electric power to Manchuria and Siberia."

"Most incomprehensible of all was the refusal to let me bomb the important supply center at Racin, which was not in Manchuria or Siberia, but many miles from the border, in forwarded supplies from Vladivostok for the North Korean Army. I felt that step-by-step my weapons were being taken away from me."

This is exactly the same type of "treason" that occurred against our military forces in Vietnam. But Vietnam was far more vile and dirty in length of time that our soldiers were betrayed. MacArthur continues on page 21:

"That there was some leak in intelligence was evident to everyone. (Brigadier General Walton) Walker continually complained to me that his operations were known to the enemy in advance through sources in Washington information must have been relayed to them, assuring that the Yalu River bridges would continue to enjoy their sanctuary and that their bases would be left intact. They knew they could swarm down across the Yalu River without having to worry about bombers hitting their Manchurian supply lines."

General MacArthur then referred on page 21 to an official leaflet published in Red China by Chinese General Lin Piao. It read:

"I would never have made the attack and risked men and military reputation if I had not been assured that Washington would restrain General MacArthur from taking adequate retaliatory measures against my lines of supply and communication."

J. Ruben Clark, Jr., former Under-Secretary of State and Ambassador to Mexico, who was widely recognized as one of our nation's foremost international lawyers, stated on page 27 of the book entitled "The United Nations Today".

"Not only does the Charter Organization (United Nations) not prevent future wars, but it makes it practically certain that we shall have future wars, and as to such wars it takes from us (the United States) the power to declare them to choose the side on which we shall fight, to determine what forces and military equipment we shall use in war, and to control and command our sons who do the fighting."

Planned wars by international corporate socialists money barons within the United States and throughout the world brings great profit to the majority of banks and war manufacturing plants that they control and own all across the United States. These same people got filthy rich on the "20 pieces of silver" for the lives lost and wounded of our soldiers in the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, and they also collected billions of dollars in profit for supply "war materials" in Korea and Vietnam.

By now you should have come to realize "why" there were so many restrictions on our soldiers during combat in Korea and Vietnam, and why we were NOT ALLOWED TO WIN not allowed to bomb certain targets, not allowed to really do anything in a positive manner to destroy the enemy.

Korea and Vietnam were never planned to be won, but instead they were planned so big money could be made by the bankers and all their political lackeys who sit in Public Office all over the United States and in other governments of the world.

The Vietnam conflict was also allowed to continue to weaken the resistance of Americans against any type of war or fight against communism. To accept anything would be better in the minds of the masses than war and having their sons killed. Even if it meant "merging" of our entire government with that of the Soviet Union (as we presently are witnessing).

END

This response was written by Bob Revello. Major General Jack Jumper, a general in Vietnam I worked directly under, was one of the true commanders of that war. He knew what was going on with the UN and had our fliers hit targets in Cambodia, particularly the Ho Chi Minh trail. All without the knowledge of the Commies in the UN knowing about it. Too many supplies were coming in from the North and they were getting ready for another offensive. Gen. Jumper put a stop to it (1972). The UN, with White House approval, took him out of the position he was in (Intelligence) and placed him in charge of the Personnel Division. That's OK. He did what he had to do and saved many lives.


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1 posted on 03/27/2003 3:35:46 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
The communists never gave up.

And today, they are back.

We MUST get out of the UN. Complete withdrawel by the US. Let them relocate to france, or wherever. Anything but US soil.

2 posted on 03/27/2003 3:43:16 PM PST by MonroeDNA (An American Black Muslim traitor, acting on his religeous beliefs, tried to take out the top brass)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Do we have independent verification of this alleged command and control structure, where EVERYTHING went back to New York?

Had the situation been as Farrel describes, the DPRK would never have lost the initiative at any point.

Not only that, there wasn't enough bandwidth in all of Christendom to actually transmit that much data in the early 1950s.
3 posted on 03/27/2003 3:46:25 PM PST by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
should we break out the tinfoil?
4 posted on 03/27/2003 3:47:01 PM PST by fatrat
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To: MonroeDNA
And today, they are back.

with a vengeance
5 posted on 03/27/2003 3:49:14 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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To: fatrat
Lord, I hope so! Something tells me there's more than a grain of truth here though. How else could the scum have kept up with us?
6 posted on 03/27/2003 3:49:45 PM PST by johnb838 (Understand the root causes of American anger)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Does anyone know the name of Walt Walker's book?
8 posted on 03/27/2003 3:55:59 PM PST by reformed_dem (For office use only)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
aw c'mon now.. i will admit i dont know a great deal about korea or viet nam, but truman a traitor?
this doesnt quite sound like it is on the up-and-up
9 posted on 03/27/2003 4:01:34 PM PST by wafflehouse
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To: MonroeDNA
I agree, we should have BEEN out regardless of the veracity of this claim.
10 posted on 03/27/2003 4:05:34 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: wafflehouse
Yah, that would be like saying FDR was a socialist.
11 posted on 03/27/2003 4:06:19 PM PST by Dead Dog
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To: MonroeDNA
This is garbage.

General Walt, former Commander of the United States Marine Corps, reflected upon this information in his book that was written in the early 1980's.

This is the foundation of the whole story, right? The verification. The book written by "former Commander of the United States Marine Corps."

First, there's no such thing as the "Commander of the United States Marine Corps." It's the Commandant, as every senior professional officer would know.

Second, the Corps has never had a "General Walt" as either Commandant or Commander. Nobody with a first, last, or middle name of "Walter", "Walton", "Wallace", etc.

http://www.thefontman.com/commandants.htm

So flush this. It's pure paranoid conspiracy garbage.

12 posted on 03/27/2003 4:15:39 PM PST by XJarhead
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To: MonroeDNA
This is garbage.

General Walt, former Commander of the United States Marine Corps, reflected upon this information in his book that was written in the early 1980's.

This is the foundation of the whole story, right? The verification. The book written by "former Commander of the United States Marine Corps."

First, there's no such thing as the "Commander of the United States Marine Corps." It's the Commandant, as every senior professional officer would know.

Second, the Corps has never had a "General Walt" as either Commandant or Commander. Nobody with a first, last, or middle name of "Walter", "Walton", "Wallace", etc.

http://www.thefontman.com/commandants.htm

So flush this. It's pure paranoid conspiracy garbage.

13 posted on 03/27/2003 4:17:14 PM PST by XJarhead
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To: XJarhead
And that's a double post. :-)
14 posted on 03/27/2003 4:17:31 PM PST by XJarhead
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To: Tailgunner Joe
There is a lot of truth in this account, but it is scattered like undigested oats in a chunk of horse turd.

Working backwards, Vietnam was never a UN operation. We were in that conflict because of our obligations under the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization ( SEATO ), and it was an all-American operation.

In Korea, there definitely was a problem with UN "High Command" leaking information to the Chinese and the NKA ; but there was nothing secretive about the Inchon landing - except the exact date.

The NKA had plenty of notice, but didn't believe it, because, of all the places in the world for an amphibious assault,Inchon, with its 30' tides, was considered probably the worst.Chesty Puller, who commanded this operation, noted it was necessary to use 15' ladders to scale the seawall : a circumstance which would have turned the landing into a bloodbath, if there had been any real resistance - which there wasn't. The big problem in Korea came after MacArthur repeatedly ignored credible intelligence reports of Chinese infiltration, and sent a divided force to the Chosin Reservoir - ( Some critics say, because he wanted a "big win " on his record when the Republican National Convention met.He wanted to run for President, and had to outshine Eisenhower somehow .)MacArthur reportedly said " Are you going to let a few Chinese laundrymen stop you ? " - not knowing there were at least 6 Chinese divisions waiting for his troops to arrive.

15 posted on 03/27/2003 4:26:42 PM PST by genefromjersey (Save the last 6 for pall-bearers !)
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To: wafflehouse
.. "i will admit i dont know a great deal about korea or viet nam, but truman a traitor? "

If you don't believe such a thing about Truman then you must believe it about MacArthur. Truman's performance in the division of eastern europe and founding of the UN speaks for itself. He was responsible for the cold war and the Soviet domination of eastern europe for forty years.
The great chairman Mao also owed a large debt to Harry's
communist avoidance policy.
16 posted on 03/27/2003 4:29:54 PM PST by hford02 ((We built the UN in NYC to lower the overhead for all socialist spies))
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To: fatrat
Weak.....
17 posted on 03/27/2003 4:34:24 PM PST by hove
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To: Tailgunner Joe
I've read this before and believe it is true.
18 posted on 03/27/2003 4:46:14 PM PST by Pushi
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To: Pushi
I've read this before and believe it is true.

How can it be true when it is based on a book written by a general who never existed? At the very least, it indicates such sloppy research that the rest of it can't be trusted.

genefromjersey is right. MacArthur simply ignored the threat from the Chinese despite plenty of evidence that they had infiltrated into North Korea. In fact, Marines fought with Chinese troops in late October - early November 1950, and reported that contact to MacArthur. Who promptly blew it off. The major Chinese attack didn't come until nearly 4 weeks later.

Whatever the orders from Truman, MacArthur screwed up badly.

19 posted on 03/27/2003 4:52:48 PM PST by XJarhead
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To: XJarhead
He very much existed:

The Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950, with a massive multi-front attack by the North Korean Army across the 38th parallel, an artificial border which divided North and South Korea. On June 30, General Walker received his battle orders formally committing his forces to the Korean conflict. On July 13, Walker was placed in charge of all U.S. Army forces in Korea, and four days later was also put in charge of all South Korean forces. General Walker’s initial orders were to engage the North Korean Army as far north as possible and defeat them. It was commonly thought that the North Koreans would turn and run once they ran into American soldiers. Walker, on the contrary, was under no illusions about the capabilities of the Eighth Army. However, he had already run afoul of his superior, General Douglas MacArthur, and was in no position to question the orders he had received.

By July, with the fall of Taejon, it was apparent to General Walker that the Eighth Army would be forced to pull back even further. He feared for the safety of his own command post in Taegu, the nerve center of the perimeter defense. By late July his forces equaled in numbers the invading North Korean Army, although many of his troops were engaged in supply and support roles. However, the quality of the Allied forces remained deficient and the North Koreans held the initiative. Walker had the unenviable task of conducting a delaying action with his Eighth Army until sufficient forces could be built up to launch a counteroffensive into the North Korean Army’s rear area. By now his perimeter had shrunk to an area roughly fifty miles wide by one hundred miles in length from north to south. This became known as the “Pusan Perimeter.”

One critical advantage General Walker possessed was that his military intelligence assets had broken the North Korean radio codes. Thus Walker knew every major North Korean movement prior to its occurrence. He had his major units deployed on the front lines, yet kept a mobile reserve that could be rushed in to plug any local breakthrough. His ability to read the enemy’s radio traffic enabled Walker to rush reinforcements to where they were needed on short notice. Often Walker could be found at the front line personally appraising the battle situation and issuing orders to local commanders. He told one commander that he only wanted to see him behind the lines in his coffin!

After numerous battle debacles and more than a hundred miles of retreating, the Eighth Army’s morale was low. During a conference in Taegu with General MacArthur, it was determined that there could no longer be any retreating by the Eighth Army. Shortly after the meeting, on July 29, General Walker issued his famed “Stand or Die” order to the beleaguered defenders of the Pusan Perimeter. This command was timely, for an all-out North Korean offensive was launched against the perimeter in five different spots on September 1. General Walker’s use of Marines and U.S. Army troops as a fire brigade to contain any North Korean breakthrough proved to be a sound strategy, and forestalled a forced withdrawal from the Korean peninsula.

General Walker’s holding mission was part of the overall strategy of General MacArthur. MacArthur’s plan was to launch a flanking attack deep behind enemy lines at the port of Inchon. The Inchon landing took place on September 15. General Walker planned his own breakout attack from the perimeter for September 16. By that time Walker felt that the North Korean forces would be demoralized with the knowledge that the landings had effectively cut off their lines of supply and retreat. Unfortunately for Walker, the North Korean soldiers had not heard of the Inchon landing and instead launched their own attack, which stalled the American breakout attempt in the Waegwan area. To top it off, the weather was overcast, preventing the use of close air support. Ultimately, the North Korean resistance began to crumble and the weather cleared, which allowed the employment of air assets. General Walker’s forces gained the initiative on the northern, north western, and western fronts with successive assaults against the crumbling North Korean Army. While the South Korean Army led the attack up the eastern seaboard, the 1st Cavalry Division and others attacked up the main highway leading roughly northwest toward Taejon and recaptured the city. On September 27 the linkup with the 7th Division which had landed at Inchon was completed just north of Osan, approximately twenty miles south of Seoul. Of the approximately 100,000 North Korean soldiers surrounding the Pusan Perimeter only 25,000 to 30,000 are believed to have ever made it back to North Korea.

General Walker continued leading the Eighth Army in its attack across the 38th Parallel into North Korea. The capture of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang was completed on October 20. On October 24, General Walker established his advance headquarters in North Korean Premier Kim Il Sung’s abandoned headquarters building. As the Eighth Army moved north there arose a dispute between political and military forces in Washington, which wanted to limit the war, and General MacArthur, who wanted to carry the attack to complete victory.

In October 1950, Chinese soldiers were encountered for the first time north of Unsan in North Korea. Despite mounting evidence of increasing resistance, General MacArthur hinted that American troops would begin returning home by Christmas, much to the consternation of General Walker. This belief of an early victory was so widespread that several United Nations members held back some of the troops they had earmarked for the Korean campaign.

This optimistic view would change quickly as the situation on the northern front lines rapidly deteriorated. In a series of vicious firefights the Eighth Army was stalled in its tracks and put on the defensive. MacArthur optimistically (or perhaps naively) ordered General Walker to press on with the attack toward the Yalu River despite the increasingly hostile weather, numerous supply shortages, and evidence of massive Chinese intervention.

Walker was reluctant to blindly press on with the attack at this point of the war, notwithstanding his past association with George S. Patton. He increasingly feared Chinese intervention and he had no illusions of a quick victory. Walker prudently delayed resuming the offensive while he tried to replace his personnel losses and build up his logistical supplies. He expressed fear of being forced to conduct a general retreat. His prudent delaying of the offensive gained him enemies in MacArthur’s Tokyo headquarters. Compounding Walker’s problems was the separation of his command from the X Corps, which was on the eastern flank of the Korean Peninsula and commanded by the impetuous Major General Edward M. Almond. The Taebaek mountain range effectively split the Eighth Army under Walker from Almond's X Corps which consisted of U.S. Marines, the 7th Army Division and South Korean Army forces. Walker's right flank was exposed to the inhospitable Taebaek mountain range. This same mountain terrain was simultaneously being used by the Chinese to infiltrate thousands of troops to the flanks of the Eighth Army.

General Walker finally launched the offensive that was designed to take the Eighth Army from beyond the narrow waist of the Korean peninsula all the way to the Chinese border on the Yalu River. Initially there was little resistance but then the hidden, massed Chinese forces struck. On November 25, 1950, the Chinese launched a massive attack on the right flank, which was held by the South Korean Army. In a matter of hours three entire South Korean Army divisions were routed and Walker’s right flank ceased to exist. By November 26 the battle situation verged on disaster, with the survival of Walker’s entire Eighth Army threatened.

Shortly thereafter, Walker attended a conference in Tokyo with MacArthur. The conclusion of the meeting was that Walker’s Eighth Army would withdraw to the south to avoid being totally outflanked by the Chinese. The withdrawal of the Eighth Army was a mixed story of success and disaster. The 24th and 25th Divisions withdrew in relatively intact condition. The 2nd Division suffered severe losses in personnel and equipment.

General Walker withdrew from Pyongyang and moved his Eighth Army steadily southward toward the 38th Parallel. He conducted a series of delaying actions in the face of the numerically superior Chinese. By this time Walker had fallen out of favor with his superiors, including Douglas MacArthur, and was being considered for replacement. There had already been suggestions at higher levels as early as the previous August during the Pusan Perimeter battles that Walker be replaced.

By early December, Walker had moved his Eighth Army south of the 38th parallel and prepared for the expected Chinese invasion. He continued his habit of speeding from unit to unit, meeting with commanders and troops to assess the overall situation. On December 22, 1950, Walker was killed in an accident while trying to pass a stalled column of South Korean Army vehicles near Seoul. He had been on his way to an awards ceremony to decorate soldiers of his Eighth Army. General Walton H. Walker was buried in Arlington National Cemetery

20 posted on 03/27/2003 5:10:29 PM PST by Pushi
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