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...group was moved to Japanese-occupied Korea. There, on Sept. 8, six days after Japan's surrender, G.I.s of the U.S. 7th Division threw open the gates of their camp near Inchon. Johnson had been a prisoner for three years and five months to the day. Of the 1,619 Americans who had left the Philippines together, barely a handful survived...
That is the fear of a confrontation with Communist China. It troubles President Johnson, who talks in terms of mortal peril about coming to grips "with 700 million Chinese." It came to afflict even General Douglas Mac Arthur, the old hero of Inchon and champion of crossing the Yalu, who in his declining years warned Johnson never to get involved in a war on the mainland of Asia...
...United Nations, urged by the U.S., gathered its armies to throw them back, and MacArthur once more turned to battle, this time as Supreme U.N. Commander in Chief for Korea. In a bold, perilous and perfectly executed amphibious flanking stroke, he landed his forces behind enemy lines at Inchon, drove a wedge through the Red armies, and turned the tide of the war. His announced "win the war" offensive was evidently a success; the troops, he said, would "be home for Christmas." And then the roof fell in. Out of the north swept swarms of "volunteer" Chinese Communist soldiers. Pouring...
Extolling the general. House Speaker John McCormack, read off a list of his great battles that reverberated like an army drum roll: "The Marne, Meuse-Argonne, St.-Mihiel and Sedan; Bataan, Corregidor, New Guinea, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Manila and Borneo, Pusan and Inchon." Then McCormack presented Mac-Arthur with an engrossed copy of a special resolution, passed unanimously by both Houses of Congress, that expressed the "thanks and appreciation of the Congress and the American people" for his leadership "during and following World War II," and for his many years of effort to strengthen the ties between the Philippines...
...panel that is taking a new, hard look at the problem of moving troops fast in battle. Among the men with stars on their shoulders and scrambled eggs on their hats flew young men in mufti whose schooling in warfare took place not on the beachheads of Normandy or Inchon but on the blackboards of universities and Government-contract think factories. The men in mufti exert a powerful and controversial influence in the Pentagon these days-and they often have more to say about cold war military planning than the generals...