[Iris7]

Howdy, Snippy.

Big fan of Inchon and the General myself. A nice short history.

Inchon was just over eight years after Guadalcanal. The 1st Marine Division was nearly 100% drawn from Corps Reserve, and most had a landing or two against the Japanese. A private landing on Guadalcanal could be a Gunny, or a Captain, Major, eight years after Guadalcanal and still be only twenty six years old.

Army had almost no long service WWII field officers (Captains, Lieutenants, and below). Recent draftees, no war experience, most of them. No good NCOs at all, hardly. Very bad. With too few exceptions they were not competent troops.

[snippy_about_it]

A nice short history.

This is a "Revisit" thread of the second Foxhole thread Sam covered way back in Dec of 2002. Notice his threads got longer and longer as time went on. :-)