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

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[SAMWolf]

If it weren't for the Chinese intervention North Korea was finished. I always wondered if MacArthur hadn't pushed to the Yalu River, which the Chinese felt was a threat to them, if they would have come in?

[SAMWolf]

REAL planes have round enignes and two wheels.

I of the reasons I like the FW-190.

[SAMWolf]

Seems klike Poland has spent most of her history either fighting the Germans or Russians or occupied by the germans of Russians. Both sides always wanted Poland as a "controlled" buffer between each other.

[Prof Engineer]

I of the reasons I like the FW-190.

And the B-17. Oh boy, FOUR round engines and two wheels. I got to crawl thru Sentimental Journey about ten years ago. What a blast.

[SAMWolf]

It'd stop their hearts LOL!

[SAMWolf]

I opted to wait outside the terminal and smell NY air!

EWWWWWW! That's sick!!

Seriously though home always seems to smell better. Thanks for passing on the Foxhole info to the soldier.

[Johnny Gage]

WOO HOO!

Sounds like you recruited another "soon-to-be" freeper.

[Soaring Feather]

EWWWWWW! That's sick!!

Hey you SAMWolf!! That is boondocks air, not NYC air!! LOL

[SAMWolf]

IMHO a stupid decision on the part of the PEntagon to move the !0th Mountain Division from the Rockies to New York, but then NY senators have a lot more pull than the Western States. Unfortuantely, the soldiers are the pnes who pay, they don;'t get trained to fight in the conditions they're expected to fight in. Snow and high altitudes.

[SAMWolf]

I got to crawl thru Sentimental Journey about ten years ago. What a blast.

Me too!. Wife thought it was a waste of money. Shows what she knows. I'm still trying to convince her to pop the fee for a flight. Doubt if it will ever happen. Wonder if "Make a Wish" could help?

[SAMWolf]

That is boondocks air, not NYC air!!

I wan't worried about NYC, I figure Hillary's pantsuit has fouled the air in the whole State by now.

[Soaring Feather]

I figure Hillary's pantsuit has fouled the air in the whole State by now.
ROTFLMAO!!!
She has stunk up the state for sure!!

[colorado tanker]

You make a good point. The Chinese didn't intervene until we were very far north and they may have had a concern that we would try to establish some kind of nationalist beachhead. I suppose the smart play would have been to take Pyongyang and neighborhood but not advance close to the Yalu and see if the North Koreans would just collapse.

[Soaring Feather]

Hope so Johnny!! :)

[Johnny Gage]

Have a great rest of the week!

There won't be any "Air Power" for tomorrow and friday, as I am on vacation.
Heading to the Upper Pennisula for a SCCA Rally.

Time Out: 17:02
KMG-365

[colorado tanker]

Unfortunately, since the seventeenth century Poland has been surrounded by strong neighbors, but is cursed by no natural barriers to invasion, a strategic location and fertile soil, making it a tempting prize.

[SAMWolf]

There wasn't much to North Korea near the Chinese border back then. Once we occupied the major cities there was no where for the NK's to go.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the Heads up Johnny. Enjoy your vacation.

[colorado tanker]

There wasn't much to North Korea near the Chinese border back then

Yep. I wonder if the Chinese would have moved into the border area if we hadn't. I tend to think they really didn't want to fight us unless they felt they had to because they had just finished off the nationalists after a long and bloody war, which itself followed WWII.

[SAMWolf]

I've aways thought the Chinese and North Korean Governments very paranoid, but I guess if your running a Communist dictatorship, it just comes with the job.