[KOREAN-WAR-L:11368] Re: MASH ethics

[Mike Davino <mdavino@yahoo.com>]

This URL will take you to a map of the Pork Chop - Old
Baldy - Alligator Jaws area:

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/korea/truce/map4.gif

Mike D 
--- Love Shack <Home@DanSources.com> wrote:
> Intersting...
> I lived in Atlanta Georgia.
> The two most important heights are Kennesaw Mountain
> and Stone Mountain.
> Incredable view in good weather.
> 
> Ed ... do you know or have a Terrain Map of the Area
> around Pork Chop Hill?
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ed Evanhoe" <evanhoe2@korean-war.com>
> To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:59 PM
> Subject: [KOREAN-WAR-L:11358] Re: MASH ethics
> 
> 
> > John C.,
> >
> >  >>At 09:43 PM 2/12/2004, you wrote:
> > >Taking a hill just to prove we could is just "an
> investment in management
> > >ego" and is, in my mind, criminal.<<
> >
> > If that were the case, I'd agree but Pork Chop
> Hill and the other hills in
> > that complex were of tactical importance at the
> time since they gave U.N.
> > troops command of the river valley to the north. 
> It was important to hold
> > this terrain for the next planned advance -- which
> never happened because
> > the cease-fire talks began.
> >
> >   Conversely, this same hill complex was important
> to the Chinese and
> North
> > Koreans because it would give them command of the
> river valley to the
> > south, plus they needed to keep us from
> controlling there planned
> advances,
> > which included an attack down the Uijonbu-Seoul
> corriidor.  Thus this
> > entire piece of terrain became some of the most
> fought over in the world
> in
> > the next two years.
> >
> > Ed.
> >
> 


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