RE: My two-cents

["Carmody, William B CECOM DCSRM" <Carmody@mail1.MONMOUTH.ARMY.MIL>]

The reference to the two Army commands struck up my interest. I read a
British book about the war a few years ago, and the author explained his own
opinion that MacArthur created the smaller command (10th Corps) to give it
to one of his loyal subordinates, so that the man could distinguish himself
with his new command. The author explained that the 10th Corps commander had
an undistinguished record in WWII.

I will have to look a bit in my house to find some notes I made from the
book, so that I can cite its title.

Comments?

 Bill Carmody

		Here is something else to consider, in the early part of the
war there 
		were two separate military commands in Korea. These were the
Eighth Army and 
		the X-Corps.  The 8th Army was much larger than the 10th
Corps.  The 8th Army 
		manned most of the Western and central line and most of the
line in general. 
		The 10th Corp, a much smaller command, had the northeastern
part of the line. 
		 When the Chinese entered the war in force, the 8th Army
almost immediately 
		went into in full retreat while the Tenth Corps still had
orders to advance.  
		It wasn't until four days after the 8th Army was in full
retreat that the 
		Tenth Corps was ordered to retreat