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Mike, thanks for the URL suggestion as I was in the
Baldy, A-Jaws, Porkchop, Hill 200, OP Eerie, etc area myself from Dec/51 thru
7/52. Have copied the map and forwarded it to my 'puter file.
Bill Scott
(Co. G, 179th RCT., 45th ID ..T-Birds)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:45
PM
Subject: [KOREAN-WAR-L:11368] Re: MASH
ethics
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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