[InABunkerUnderSF]

MacArthur met with President Truman on Wake Island on Oct. 15. He told Truman that North Korean resistance would end by Thanksgiving and that the US Third Infantry Division would be “back in Ft. Benning for Christmas dinner.” He said there was little or no chance of Chinese intervention.

MacArthur continued to ignore intelligence and believe that it was "too late" for the Chinese to intervene until several days AFTER Peng DeHuai's half a million troops attacked in strength and three of MacArthur's divisions were being cut to pieces by human waves of Chinese conscripts. Between Truman's parsimony, Atchison's bumbling and MacArthur's arrogance it's a wonder that we didn't loose that war.

[VR-21]

Interesting article...thanks.

[steelyourfaith]

BTTT ; very interesting.

[calex59]

In July 1951, the war entered a new phase. Both sides gave up on the idea of decisive victory and the objective became an armistice on favorable terms. The ground battle line settled into a stalemate near the border between North and South Korea. For the next two years, the goals were to negotiate from a position of strength in the truce talks and to secure advantageous force dispositions and deployments approaching the armistice.,/I>

And this is the reason the war drug on and has never officially ended and the reason we had to fight in Vietnam. Had Truman used his frickin' brain and fought the bas***** to a victory Vietnam would never have happened. As arrogant as McArthur was he was a military genius, one who made some mistakes, sure, but at the same time he was right and Truman was wrong.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

Just FYI

A couple of decent war films about air combat over Korea: 1) the Hunters and 2) The Bridges at Toko-ri