The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Leo Siegenthaler - The Hungnam Evacuation (Dec.1950) - Oct. 15th, 2003

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[snippy_about_it]

Boo-hoo. Have a great little vacation!

[colorado tanker]

LOL! I suppose when you are as ruthless as those people you just tend to assume others are as well.

[Darksheare]

'xactly.
They're excellent soldiers, and good at infantry stuff.
(I was artillery, and got to see them strut their stuff only rarely. But when they did..)
Senators rarely know anything about the military, and if they know anything they ignore it or don't understand it.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Evening everyone.

Hope your dad is doing well, Sam.

[SAMWolf]

Evening Victoria. My Dad is doing well, the operation wnet fine. He's staying overnight.

[snippy_about_it]

Good evening Victoria.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Oh, good news, Sam. I'm happy for you.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Evening Snippy.

[SAMWolf]

Thank you.

[PhilDragoo]

Corporal sounds Taps over the graves of fallen Leathernecks during memorial services at the First Marine Division cemetery at Hungnam, following the division's heroic break-out from Chosin Reservoir. Photo taken 12/13/1950.

Marines at Yudam-ni prior to starting the 35 mile trek to Hagaru, Koto-ri, Hungnam

Here the 35 mile trek ends..What a welcome site this was as troop began the evacuation

Demolitions teams made sure nothing of value was left

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Loading supplies during evacuation of Hungnam, Korea

South Korean troops boarding evacuation ship at Hungnam, Korea

Military Sea Transportation Service and Merchant Ships Participating in Hungnam, Korea Redeployment

Alamo Victory
Argonan (Canadian registry)
Bedford Victory
Belgium Victory
Bet Jeanne (Norwegian registry)
Bet Ocean (Norwegian registry)
California
Canada Mail
Carleton Victory
Choctaw
Citrus Packer
Clarksburg Victory
Cornell Victory
Del Alba
Denise
Elly
Empire Marshall (British registry)
Empire Wallace (British registry)
Enid Victory
Exmouth Victory
Fred C. Ainsworth (USNS)
Gainesville Victory
General A. W. Brewster (USNS)
General D. I. Sultan (USNS)
General E. T. Collins (USNS)
General H. B. Freeman (USNS)
General S. Heintzelman (USNS)
Green Valley
Groton Trails
Helen Lykes
Hunter Victory
John Hanson
John Lyras (British registry)
Kelso Victory
Kenyon Victory
Lafayette Victory
Lane Victory
Letitia Lvkes
Madaket
Manderson Victory
Meredith Victory
Morgantown Victory
Mormacmoon
Nathaniel Palmer
New Zealand Victory
Norcuba
Paducah Victory
Provo Victory
Rider Victory
Robin Gray
Robin Hood
Robin Kirk
Sea Splendor
Sea Wind
Sergeant Andrew Miller (USNS)
Southwind
St. Augustine Victory
Taineron
Towanda Victory
Twin Falls Victory
Union Victory
Virginia City Victory
Wacosta
Wesleyan Victory

Hungnam, 12/24/50
3rd Infantry Division --- Last Troops Evacuated

Reactivated with the outbreak of hostilities in Korea fifteen months later, Princeton recommissioned 28 August 1950. Intensive training refreshed her Naval Reserve crew and on 5 December she joined TF 77 off the Korean coast, her planes and pilots (Air Group 19) making possible the reinstitution of jet combat air patrols over the battle zone. She launched 248 sorties against targets in the Hagaru area to announce her arrival, and for the next six days continued the pace to support Marines fighting their way down the long, cold road from the Chosin Reservoir to Hungnam. By the 11th, all units had reached the staging area on the coast. Princeton's planes, with other Navy, Marine, and Air Force squadrons, then covered the evacuation from Hungnam through its completion on 24 December 1950.

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Truman, Acheson, and Owen Lattimore having screwed Chiang Kai-shek and given China to Mao; while FDR and Marshall had given Stalin Eastern Europe and vast quantities of materiel, why should not the Sock Puppet invade in June 1950?

The rush to demilitarize, cashing in that granddaddy of all peace dividends, relegating the SK posture to pro forma terra cotta warriors.

Hank Holzer got over there in 56 assigned to develop Chinese order of battle, remarking he was a very low rank for such an assignment.

How could McArthur not see the Chinese coming?

Hank has a whole book in the back of his mind, something about a hundred days, and why did McArthur--but I can't read his mind.

Another political betrayal--but our warriors proved superb in lunar conditions.

It's well to remember the United Nations was a Soviet idea for which Stalin demanded five, then four, until settling on three seats to our one--to which FDR patron saint of the Left acceded.

The facility on the East River will be best utilized as a USO for our returning warriors to enjoy.

Evict Kofi; headline with Drew Carey, Bruce Willis, and a full lineup of patriotic country entertainers.

We can settle the peninsular problem by sending Chia Jong a booby-trapped inflata-doll as a countermeasure to his nuclear Nodong gambit.

Appeasement has enabled his nuclear program.

[SAMWolf]

Evening PhilDragoo.

Thanks for all the additional info on the USS Princeton. That's an impressive list of Merchant Marine Ships, once again they came through when needed.

Clinton and Halfbright made allowed Kim to be the threat he is today. More crap from the clinton administration that someone else has to clean up.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[snippy_about_it]

The facility on the East River will be best utilized as a USO for our returning warriors to enjoy.

Excellent idea.

Thank you Phil for the great pics and information added today, and as always your special commentary.

[colorado tanker]

My recollection is that before the Korean War, Acheson gave a speech laying out the containment doctrine and reviewing the areas of vital interest covered by it, leaving Korea out of the picture. So, the N.K.'s had a green light from the U.S. that we wouldn't fight for the South. As incredible as it may sound, it seems that neither State nor Defense appreciated before the war that the Korean peninsula is like a dagger aimed at Japan and that communist occupation of the South would make the defense of Japan very difficult if not impossible.

Dont even get me started about Mad Maddy Halfbright.

[SAMWolf]

Dont even get me started about Mad Maddy Halfbright.

I know that feeling, I get into a good rant when her of Reno are mentioned.

[colorado tanker]

"Reno." I will never forget the picture of an American law officer, armed as if for combat, seizing Elian, trying to hide in a closet, on a phony warrant, to send him to Castro's Cuba. The thing that made me even angrier is that few people thought there was anything wrong with that.

I think Wesley (I am the next Ike) Clark has some splainin' to do about just what he and Reno did at Waco.

[SAMWolf]

I'll always associate Reno with the incineration of American Citizens at Waco. Still too many unanswered questions about that too.

[colorado tanker]

It was unconscionable to send the US military in to attack that compound over a minor weapons charge. Sure the leader was a nutburger, but he had a lot of women and children in there with him. The Dims like to talk a big game about "proportional response" in international affairs, but if someone crosses their domestic agenda they have no restraint about using force here at home.

[SAMWolf]

When you read about Koresch and find out they could have arrested him on numerous occasions outside the compound makes you wonder what the whole thing was about.

[colorado tanker]

makes you wonder what the whole thing was about.

Sure does. I don't know if the ATF was trying to prove something or if it started out as just their usual incompetence.