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Posted on 12/31/2004 10:00:58 PM PST by snippy_about_it
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 are acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated.
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 A brief overview of Land Operations 25 November 1950 - 25 January 1951 The weeks following 25 November 1950 formed one of the most miserable periods of U.S. military history. What on 24 November promised the conflict's early and victorious end was swiftly transformed into an "entirely new war", with UN (overwhelmingly American) and Republic of Korea troops fighting for their lives through Communist Chinese ambushes and roadblocks in the midst of wintery weather that often inflicted more casualties than did the enemy. The Chinese proved themselves masters of infiltration, evading premature observation by moving mainly at night, skillfully covering their tracks and taking full advantage of the UN/ROK armies' thinly-manned front, roadbound tactics and inadquate patrolling. Not for the first time, nor for the last, superior air power was unable to detect and stop an enemy's buildup before he chose to engage. Even after the Chinese were out in the open, bad weather frequently curtailed air support. On 29 November, General MacArthur ordered withdrawal on all fronts. In the west, the Eighth Army broke contact and retired rapidly through Pyongyang, which was abandoned on 5 December. The nearby port of Chinnampo, opened only a month before, was evacuated by sea on 4-6 December, providing a way out for many supplies and refugees. In the east, X Corps was ordered to fall back on the port of Hungnam. Ships pulled some units out of Songjin and Wonsan, while others moved by road. To the North, on 1-4 December, the First Marine Division shot its way down from Yudam-Ni, west of the Chosin Reservoir, to Hagaru, at its base. Covered by Marine and Navy planes, it continued the fight down the road from Hagaru to Hungnam, completing the movement on 10-11 December. A general evacuation of Hungnam then commenced, taking the Marines and most other evacuated forces to Pusan to regroup. After a lull of some weeks, the Chinese offensive was renewed as 1950 ended. Seoul was given up on for the second time on 4 January and a new defensive line established running across Korea well south of the city. With the evacuation of Inchon the UN Command was again left with Pusan as its only major seaport. However, the Chinese soon exhausted their offensive push. They had lost a large proportion of their men, and their now extended supply line, subject to intense bombardment from the air, sea and ground, was unable to sustain attacks. Directed by a new and energetic commander, Lieutenant General Matthew B. Ridgway, in mid-January the Eighth Army (now including the previously independent X Corps) probed northwards, finding little of the enemy. On 25 January, a cautious general advance began, the first of a series that would ultimately stabilize the front beyond the old line between North and South Korea.      |
Good morning and Happy New Year alfa6.
Good morning PE.
Hiya Sam
Hi Colonel, it look's to be a promising year for SpankeTruppen recruits.
Howdy ma'am
Ya'll taking a breather today?
Happy New Year greetings to the Foxhole.
Thanks for the daily presentations, SAM and Snippy.
Morning Mayor.
Afternoon PE.
Watching the game today?
Happy New Year, DD.
Nah, I can't stand foo-bah. I've been playing radio in between naps.
Thank you snippy and a Happy and Prosperous New Year to you and SAM.
How is the Eviiil Capatalist gig going today?
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
We are really close to finishing all the build out. Of course it would have helped if the electrician would have shown up last week. Grrr. Maybe Monday. We need the wires dropped through a pole so we can set up our cash wrap and I can have my kitchen table back.
You're welcome, Happy New Year to you DD.
Who us? No way. Its a short day though, we continued our work, Sam hung lattice clouds along the perimeter of the windows, looks good. We're actually going to catch a movie tonight!!!
LOL. You'll at least give it the ol' college try!
Good evening Mayor.
My, my, how like the LBJ bragadoccio "I'm going to teach this little sob [Ho Chi Minh] a lesson"--and both these Democrat presidents were "desperately trying to avoid World War III".
Truman removed SecDef Johnson and General MacArthur in 1951, and here's another roe from hell:
Truman, now deeply concerned, convened the NSC again, emphasizing that the US had to avoid being sucked into a general war against China. He reaffirmed the prohibitions against bombing Manchuria and Yalu dams and hydroelectric stations.
My poli sci department head Dr. George F. Lipsky a State Department career veteran (and a domino believer) made it clear that international relations require that the players acknowledge a "concept of limits".
Implication being barbarians mean rules are off.
Truman and LBJ were nice-nice to the Chicoms and North Vietnamese commies and we therefore lost tens of millions in each war to acquire political defeat.
In Iraq al Qaeda murders five Iraqi policemen in the street yet U.S. citizen Medea Benjamin raises 600K for our Fallujah enemies, while Ramsey Clark throws in with Saddam's defense team.
Ted Kennedy and John Kerry and other sewer flotsam and jetsam continue to bemoan the ignomity of the treatment of the POS abu Ghraib detainees.
A cleansing is taking place as we approach W's second innauguration and Iraq's first election.
Iraq echoes our warnings to Damascus and Tehran to back off--warnings sure to be ignored.
Let there be no more detainees to be festooned with panties on the head. Let them wear lead instead.
Limited war is akin to partially pregnant or slightly dead, a bankrupt concept from the era of Stimson's dictum against reading other gentlemen's mail.
Throw mullah from the train into the abyss.
New project for tomorrow, replace the door knob on the bath room door. The current one is getting real hard to open. The one I bought today was the wrong one. So I will have to take the old one with me to show them what I need. I got part of the front porch painted today. It's raining now so I don't think I'll get any painting in tomorrow.
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