[KOREAN-WAR-L:11374] Re: MASH ethics

[Mike Davino <mdavino@yahoo.com>]

Your welcome, Bill.  Sadly, there is now a North
Korean People's Army guardpost on the crest of Pork
Chop.

Mike D


--- Bill Scott <bjscott@adelphia.net> wrote:
> 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 ----- 
>   From: Mike Davino 
>   To: KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu 
>   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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