Re: "The Inchon Landing: An Example of Brilliant Generalship"

["Love Shack" <Home@DanSources.com>]

My take on this is that the Navy would have forced the NK and Chinese to use
the rest of their Air Power.
Since the ground war would require Navy, Marine and AirForce support at a
lower rate it would mitigate some of the Mig 15's performance.  The Navy's
4-20mm in the F9F would certainly do more damage in a Snap Shot then the 50
cal of the Saber.

This would have forced the NK, Chinese and Russians to expend too many
resources,
eventually depleted their ranks.

Also I do not know if the USA would have employeed the Japanese Army and
Pilots to assist in the war.
I believe there was discussion in an earlier post about the potential
Japanese military support as they did
have many skilled Aces after WW2.

Dan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Hwang" <jackchwang@comcast.net>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 10:57 PM
Subject: RE: "The Inchon Landing: An Example of Brilliant Generalship"


> > Why did not the UN perform another end round operation after the Chinese
> entered the war?
> > Or was there suxh a plan if the war had continued.?
> > This is woulda shoulda coulda question.
> > Dan
>
> That might not be a good option after Chinese entered the war.  Another
> landing like Inchon was always a big concern for Communists after 1951.
> CPVA and NKPA both assigned a lot of dedicated troops to guard the
> coast lines.  In September 1951, CPVA alone had 4 armies (which were
> actually corps) at the west coast and 2 and half armies at the east coast
> of Korea peninsula solely for this duty.
>
> >From December 1952 to April 1953, in response to the UN's preparation
> for a possible landing, Communists increased the strength of the coast
> defense.  There were at least 6 CPVA armies, 2 NKPA armies, and 16
> tank regiments deployed along the west coast, and another 2 CPVA
> armies, 2 NKPA armies and 1 tank regiment along the east coast.
>
> So it was not likely for UN to achieve another big success as in Inchon.
>
> Jack
>
>