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Re: Soviet Occupation Policy

At 06:06 PM 8/2/2000 -0500, James Dennis wrote:
>The U. S. Army put two Divisions into Korea after the War.  They landed 
>there on the 1st week of August.  The Divisions were deactivated in Korea 
>and the equipment (along with a lot of Japanese equipment) were 
>transferred to the ROK Police and later the ROK Army.    The last 
>Division was deactivated in early 1948.  

This was Hodge's XXIVth Corps.  It took MacArthur two and a half years to
convince Washington the US had no business basing military forces in Korea.

Marc

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