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To: sonofstrangelove
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.

2 posted on 04/02/2010 10:33:31 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (California -- Ya es como Mexico)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

We didnt win the war. It isnt even over yet. No peace treaty has ever been signed with the NK.
MacArther was the most over rated general we ever had. IMHO.


5 posted on 04/03/2010 3:13:16 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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