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Re: MacArthur [Was: Slow period for list]



At 12:29 PM 12/23/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Sometimes dividing works...sometimes not..
What led to the decision to divide forces?

Mainly geographic. There was a very limited east/west and north/south road network that made meaningful contact between 8th Army and X Corps, as well as ROKA II Corps whose zone lay in between, all but impossible.
Ed

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