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...felt their action to be entirely wrong ... [It was] a sheer misuse of U.N. to take advantage of the absence of the Russians from the Security Council and of the presence of the wrong Chinese government . . . When the American forces, dragging us with them, advanced right to the Manchurian frontier, I was quite unable to blame the Chinese for intervening . . ." Cole's conclusion: "If Great Britain gets dragged into war with China by the Americans, I shall be on the side of China...
...months of battle experience, U.S. evaluation of the Chinese enemy has fluctuated widely. At first the Chinese seemed to burst from their Manchurian "sanctuary" like a limitless, indoctrinated, irresistible horde. Gradually they slowed down, passed from advance to a stubborn holding action. Weaknesses became more apparent: deficiencies in air power, tanks and heavy artillery; primitive supply lines, relying in part upon oxcarts and manback; pitiful lack of medical care...
Said Lieut. Jacob Kratt, flying top cover: "I rolled over and came down fast, and got in a good long burst on the No. 2 MIG. Smoke poured out of his tail, and he turned to the Manchurian side, and that apparently disorganized their attack, as two more of our flights made passes at the field, and nobody got bounced on his run. My wingman said that when he passed my MIG it was flaming...
...Reds were reported to be suffering heavily from allied air attacks. Their famous "manback" supply system worked well enough for front-line distribution, but their human supply carriers could not tote their burdens all the way from the Manchurian border. For those hundreds of miles, the Communists used trains and road vehicles, which were vulnerable to air harassment. Air communiques reported attacks on six trains (one destroyed, four damaged); one day the allied air arms attacked road convoys totaling 425 vehicles...
General MacArthur counted about 200,000 Chinese and North Koreans facing his line on the Seoul front, 250,000 elsewhere in Korea, 900,000 more Chinese in reserve behind the Manchurian border...