Word: almond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General Edward Mallory Almond was impatient to hear the latest battlefront news from U.S. military adviser Colonel Sterling Wright. A near-hysterical Korean operator broke into the call. "Oh, save us, save us, General Almond," she wailed. Tart-tongued in moments of exasperation, the Chief of Staff answered: "What in the hell do you think we're trying to do? Whose planes do you think were flying over Seoul today...
Under MacArthur, few commanders played a more important role than "Ned" Almond in saving Korea from Red aggression. The war was hardly a fortnight old and the U.N. forces were still beating a dismal retreat, when the Chief of Staff was told to start thinking of an end run around the enemy's line. Inchon was picked as the place for an amphibious assault, despite its treacherous tide and seawall. "Who's going to command the landing force?" asked the Chief of Staff. "You are," said MacArthur...
Military handbooks allow 160 days for readying a landing of such magnitude. Beginning Aug. 16th, Almond drafted the plans for the Inchon landing by the 28th, had his X Corps (the U.S. 1st Marine and 7th Infantry Divisions plus South Korean units) on the sea and moving to the target by Sept. 10, went ashore on the 15th, secured the Inchon-Seoul-Kimpo area and completed his mission by October 7th-two weeks ahead of schedule and a total of 53 days from start to finish of brilliantly executed Operation Chromite...
...ground, U.N. divisions regrouped for the imminent push across North Korea. MacArthur blacked out news of the whereabouts of certain U.S. units; everyone guessed that some were being readied for another amphibious flanking assault along the west coast of Korea. Efficient, sharp-spoken Major General Edward M. Almond, as MacArthur's chief of staff, had planned the Inchon landing and then led the X Corps ashore to capture Seoul. It seemed a likely bet that Ed Almond and his seasoned men would figure in the next big action...
...Rear Admiral James H. ("Jimmy") Doyle, amphibious attack commander, and on Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, commander of the Seventh Fleet, who softened up the shore defenses and got the troops to the beaches. After all troops were ashore, the ground fighting would be taken over by General Almond as commander of MacArthur's X Corps. Between times, the heaviest responsibility for the success or failure of Operation Chromite lay with General Smith's marines...