Re: MacArthur [Was: Slow period for list]

["Les Hanson" <hanson@totalnetnh.net>]

List,
"final confrennce before the Inchon landing[held in Tokyo on August 23,1950]
[ General MacArthur overruled the JCS[joint chiefs of staff]"
Secretary,Far East Command General Staff,
Lieutenant Colonel John Chiles
Oral history interview,July 27,1977

The Korean War - Holding the Line:August 19-23,1950

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/korea/large/korea
819_23.htm


Les
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Evanhoe" <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:43 PM
Subject: 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
>
> Ed Evanhoe, PO Box 916, Antlers, OK, 74523-0916
> Author: DARKMOON: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War
> Co-author: KOREAN WAR ORDER OF BATTLE 1950-1953 (Dec, 2002)
> Life Member: Special Forces & Special Operations Associations
> Web site:  http://www.korean-war.com  Co-list owner KOREAN-WAR-L
>