Posted on 06/25/2016 7:00:19 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
June 25, 1950: When North Korea invaded South Korea
by Dennis Jamison - Jun 25, 2016
Not so much a conflict as a global War, Korea had the United Nation allies fighting the Soviet Union, North Korea (D.P.R.K.), and People’s Republic of China (P.R.C.) all for control of South Korea.
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 24, 2016 — To many Americans under the age of 50, the Korean War (previously known as the “Korean Conflict” in politically sanitized language) may not be viewed as a major military confrontation like the involvement of the United States in Vietnam. Nevertheless, this conflict was a global war. When one considers that the Soviet Union, North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – D.P.R.K.), and the newly formed Communist regime of the People’s Republic of China (P.R.C.) all participated in fighting to take over South Korea against the combined military forces of the United Nations, this “conflict” could have mushroomed into World War III.
On Sunday, June 25, 1950, President Harry Truman was visiting his home in Independence, Missouri. when he received a telephone call from Secretary of State Dean Acheson. He informed Truman that South Korea had been invaded by North Korea.
In the moment, President Truman seemed ready to return to Washington, D.C., but Acheson told him that the commander in chief should get some sleep, and the secretary would provide relevant updates.
The following Sunday morning, Truman visited his brother while his wife and daughter attended local church services. A second call from Acheson that afternoon prompted Truman to fly back to Washington, D.C.
World headlines quickly revealed the surprise invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
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They were having to pull veterans out of civilian life to go fight in that war. These guys had had their fill of savage fighting, and to make them fight again was perhaps one of the reasons we relied so much on draftees in Vietnam instead of the Guard or Reserves. Besides, draftees couldn’t vote.
My Dad served for the “duration” during WW II yet in “51” he received notice of his soon to be delivered draft notice. He was 33, had wife, two kids and a good job.
The draft notice never came. He never heard another word one way or the other.
Just one of those things.
IMO, it was a *partial* victory. We did succeed in keeping South Korea free, after all.
Not lost, but not a complete victory, either. We did succeed in keeping South Korea out of the hands of the Communists.
Am I mistaken?
Thank you!
You are right. It would be a different place...this is not necessarily a good thing. Unless you think a world war fought with nuclear weapons is a good thing.
“All the later myth making about “Give ‘em Hell Harry” ignores that he made a total botch of the early “Cold War” years.”
J. Edgar Hoover went into Truman’s office with a long list—an accurate, well-supported list—of Soviet agents within the US government. Truman laughed Hoover out of his office.
Truman bears a *large* share of the blame for the sorry pass in which we find ourselves. Not much better than Obunghole, really.
I don't think there is much to worry about in that regard. With trannies soon to be allowed to overtly serve while pretending to be women, they will go into combat, no real women will be able to pass the physical requirements to go, and the Army will be able to say that it has a fully integrated infantry because of the trannies.
The Korean war is still going. North Korea still rattles its sabers.
My Dad fought in Korea. He had some pretty scary stories about times the Chinese either pushed back the Allies or broke through Allied lines, often by sheer weight of numbers. In one case the Chinese overwhelmed Turkish troops on my Dad’s unit’s flank. The surviving Turks fled, and only the timely arrival of some Aussies (I don’t know how many) who “fought like hell” according to my Dad, saved the day. He was sure he and his buddies were goners, or at best would become POW’s.
I guess if one scours all the possible time lines, one will be able to prove any hypothesis.
What makes you assert that we would have fought a nuclear world war if MacArthur had been allowed to finish the job by winning the first war we ever lost/failed to win?
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