Re: Korean War strategies (response)

[Ed Evanhoe <ede@oio.net>]

John,

 >>At 10:08 PM 11/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Don't put too much faith in the
>accuracy of the official US military history!
>For instance, in the South, Nakdong to
>North, Yalu, it mentions an alleged massacre of
>some 7000 S.Korean civilians by N.Korean troops
>at Taejon. But we now know that this massacre
>was perpetrated by S.Korean police and MPs in fact.
>The victims were all S.Korean leftists or guerillas
>who were imprisoned in S.Korean jails at the time.
>They were taken out to the field and executed in mass.<<

Horsehockey.  Get real. Given the tactical situation at the time (and the 
lack of South Korean troops and National Police in that area) there is no 
way South Korean police and MPs could have rounded up and executed any 
where near that number.  Did South Korean Army and National Police execute 
some prisoners?  The answer is yes, but not at Taejon.  What about the 34 
American bodies, hands tied behind their backs and shot in the back with 
bullets fired from PpSh sub-machineguns, mixed in with the dead South 
Koreans?  I guess we are supposed to believe the South Korean police 
rounded these guys up, tied their hands behind their backs and shot them, 
using Soviet weapons.  Forensics on the bodies indicate most of those 
massacred there were shot by Soviet weapons
(of which the South Korean police and Army had none.)

As for the east coast invasions, I'll take the word of Americans who were 
there at the time over Cummings any day.

A word to the wise:  Don't try to rewrite history.  It doesn't work.




>According to Cumings' book, he also questioned
>the accuracy of the early military landings of N.Koreans
>on the East Coast in the early part of the War because
>these reports were provided by the S.Korean military
>which may have spread the info as part of its own disinformation
>plan(if the War was planned by the South in advance).

Ed Evanhoe, PO Box 916, Antlers, OK, 74523
Author: DARKMOON: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War
Life Member: Special Forces & Special Operations Associations
Web site:  http://www.korean-war.com