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

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

I meant Lower Altitude
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From: "Love Shack" <Home@DanSources.com>
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Subject: Re: "The Inchon Landing: An Example of Brilliant Generalship"


> 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 (ALTITUDE) 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
> >
> >
>