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...Died. Vice Admiral Lyman A. Thackrey, 57, former chairman of the Joint Amphibious Board. World War II senior U.S. naval planner for the Normandy landings, commander of Amphibious Group 3 in the 1950-51 landings at Inchon and Iwon in Korea; of cancer; in San Diego...
Unanswered. Lieut. General Edward M. Almond, who led the X Corps from the Inchon landing to the Chosin reservoir, estimated that victory could have been had in 1951 at the price of only 30,000 casualties, whereas subsequent casualties during the truce talks numbered...
After such victories and a magisterial term of occupation in Japan, Korea was bound to be a letdown. The sketchy, querulous Korean narrative adds little to the public record. At Inchon, notes Author Willoughby, MacArthur took the North Koreans in the rear "in the classical Napoleonic pattern"-just like the dazzled Austrians at Treviso. But the Supreme Commander pushed on, never believing that the Chinese Communists would strike south across the Yalu River. By the time MacArthur could pull his retreating forces together again, Truman fired him for insisting that the Korean war could (and should) be fought...
Ronnie passed into the hands of indifferent relatives. When the Communists pushed into Seoul in June 1950, Ronnie was hidden in a cold shack, where he spent most of his time lying on a bare floor. There, after the fall of Inchon, officials of the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital found him still alive amid the bomb rubble...
...Chinese P.W.s were still joyful. At Inchon, where grey U.S. LSTs waited to take them to Formosa, the P.W.s got a traditional Chinese celebration. Dancers cavorted on stilts, and performed the ancient lion dance, in honor of the great Chinese victory against the explainers; they balanced tiny children atop long poles; they gave the P.W.s fine silk scarves and paper garlands. Then the P.W.s patted the children goodbye, cast farewell glances at the girls in the swirling skirts, and moved off toward the waiting LSTs. Starting next morning, the 14,000 sailed for a new life on Formosa. They seemed...