Re: "The 24th Infantry Regiment: The "Deuce-Four" in Korea"

[Ed Evanhoe <ed_evanhoe@korean-war.com>]

John,

The 24th Infantry did have some successes like the Yechon battle but 
overall did not perform well mainly because of poor leadership, lack of 
training, poor equipment and the overall belief among army leaders that an 
all-Negro unit was a second-class unit and unreliable.  Thus some units the 
24th did withdraw time after time when they should have held. Other units, 
will good leadership, fought as they should but had to withdraw when faced 
with becoming encircled when their flanks were exposed by others bugging 
out.  This was true of most units during the early fighting but it was the 
24th Infantry who received the most bad press.

Ed

At 03:48 PM 12/16/2003, you wrote:
> In a message dated 12/16/2003 2:33:48 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
> mikeyared@yahoo.com writes:
> the 24th produced the
> first U.S. victory in the Korean war during a time
> when the political climate in Washington, D.C., led to
> inadequate combat readiness in the armed services.
>
> That ain't what I was told about the 24th Inf Regt while I was in Korea 
> during 1951.
>
>      John Sonley Korea 1951

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