Re: New page for korean-war.com

[Stuart Millis <stuart_millis@telus.net>]

This sounds like a very exciting project. The options are innumerable. I hope you
will include fine details of the unit engagements, including maps; perhaps
photo/sound files; newly introduced weapons/forces/tactics. A dry list of events
can be brought to life by adding political background/ personal recollections, or
accounts of brilliant strategies and blunders.

A timeline can become confusing when several actions occur concurrently. One can
lose track of the important details of a campaign that may be ongoing when a new
action takes place.
By way of another sugestion, if the timeline would link to separate timelines for
military units, campaigns or regions.

I eagerly await your new webpage.

Good luck
Stuart

Ed Evanhoe wrote:

> David,
>
>  >>At 07:01 AM 5/22/00 +0900, you wrote:
> >I think I have to agree with Stuart.  The Imjin River engagement (on what we
> >now call Gloucester Hill) was part of the CCF offensive and is an example of
> >a tactical battle having an operational (if not strategic) result (if the
> >CCF had captured Uijongbu the effect could have been devastating for EUSA
> >and the UNC).  I would not relegate it to a "lesser page" of engagements
> >(though since we have not seen the entire project none of us are qualified
> >to really judge it.  Just my 2 cents worth.<<
>
> No argument about the importance of the British stand at the Imjim during
> the 1st Chinese Spring Offensive.  The loss of Uijongbu would have opened
> the floodgates and EUSA and UNC forces probably would have been back
> to Line "D" or below.
>
> However, the second list I am building for my web site is  intended to give
> students and researchers a list of as many "small unit" engagements
> as possible, and in a time-line sequence so will not judge an engagement's
> importance, only that the engagement took place, where and when and units
> involved.
>
> Given the total number of engagements I will probably have to make this
> area into a separate sub-section of the web site and group the engagements
> by time periods  -- Retreat to the Pusan Perimeter, Pusan Perimeter Battles,
> Breakout, etc -- with each group being a separate page.
>
> Ed Evanhoe, PO Box 916, Antlers, OK, 74523-0916
> Member: American Society of Journalists and Authors
> Life Member: Special Forces & Special Operations Associations
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