Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adams developed his toughness the hard way. In World War II, he helped direct the Ranger tactics of the First Special Service Force in the Aleutian Islands and Italy, also served in hot spots from Anzio and Ardennes-Alsace to the Rhineland and central Germany. In the Korean war, he ended up as Eighth Army Commander Maxwell Taylor's chief of staff. He directed U.S. Army and Marine forces in the landings in Lebanon in 1958. Last fall he was the key commander in the huge "Operation Big Lift" that sent 15,377 men and 445 tons of combat...
Perfidy. According to Lucas, Mac-Arthur said that during the Korean War "every message he sent to Washington and every message sent by Washington to him was shown to the British by the State Department." Within 48 hours, the messages were "relayed by the British, either through India or through the Russian Embassy in London, to the Chinese Communists." Thus, said Lucas, the Chinese Communists "knew in advance every step he proposed to take," and, in fact, entered the Korean conflict only "after being assured by the British that MacArthur would be ham strung and could not effectively oppose them...
...eloquently simple, as when he spoke at a cemetery near Pearl Harbor: "I did not know the dignity of their birth, but I do know the glory of their death." Nowhere did he seem to hold history more firmly in his hands than when, relieved of his Korean command in 1951, he stood before a joint session of the Congress and said...
...only by throwing Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Chinese forces into the fight on the Chinese mainland and by carrying the war across the Yalu River into Manchuria. President Harry Truman and his Joint Chiefs of Staff argued that such tactics would inevitably bring Communist China into the Korean war. It would be, explained General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, "the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong enemy...
Through various messages sent to the States, MacArthur set forth his strong opposing views. Then, in March 1951, just four days after he was notified that the U.N. planned to proclaim its willingness to discuss a Korean settlement, MacArthur himself declared that he was ready to meet the enemy in the field to talk about peace; implied was a threat that otherwise MacArthur would extend the war beyond the Korean border. On April 11, Truman, after consulting the Joint Chiefs, fired MacArthur because he felt that the General was "unable to give his wholehearted support" to the policies...