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...directly on to Washington. They were Generals J. Lawton Collins and Hoyt S. Vandenberg, chiefs of the nation's ground and air forces, fresh from consultation with Douglas MacArthur. Their colleague, Admiral Forrest Sherman, was in Washington consulting with Congressmen. The day after the Korean Reds breached the 24th Division's line along the Kum River (see WAR IN ASIA), Collins and Vandenberg landed in Washington with this word for reporters: "Our troops are doing damn well and everything will come out all right...
Well-equipped for what? Certainly not for what happened a scant five months after his return, when the housing of the 24th Division became suddenly not only poor but deplorable...
...MacArthur appointed stocky, tough-minded Lieut. General Walton H. Walker as ground commander in Korea, with the title of commanding general of the Far East Command's Eighth Army. "Johnnie" Walker, 60, replaced Major General William F. Dean, who reverted to his old job as commander of the 24th Division, which has borne the brunt of the U.S. fighting in Korea...
...were bombing Pyongyang, the Red capital, and other objectives north of the 38th parallel. U.S., British and Australian naval forces, including carriers and cruisers, were committed to action in the Korean theater; U.S. warships shelled shore installations at the Red-seized port of Inchon. Douglas MacArthur ordered the 24th Division, equipped with tanks and artillery, to Korea by sea. One battalion of the 24th was flown to Pusan and shipped to the Kum River front by rail. Major General William F. Dean, the 24th's commander, was appointed commanding general of all U.S. forces in Korea, with Church...
...previous week MacArthur's ground commander, Lieut. General Walton Harris Walker, had been preparing for such an order, working out in advance the logistics of infantry transport. Walker's Eighth Army included four divisions ready for combat-the 7th, 24th and 25th Infantry Divisions and the 1st Cavalry Division. Of these 50-55,000 combat troops, some would have to be kept in Japan, unless MacArthur were willing to rely on service and headquarters troops to maintain order...