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...defeat contained many of the elements of his great September victory. Then he was holding the Pusan perimeter with a force that was numerically inferior to the enemy. When talk of an impending offensive began to buzz around, military analysts called it rash. They said that MacArthur did not have nearly as many men as he needed...
Most of Korea's 40,000 Communist guerrillas were actually bypassed units of the regular North Korean army and could only be called "guerrillas" because they were fighting behind the front in Allied-held territory. At the time of the junction of the Inchon and Pusan beachheads, Tokyo spokesmen had gloatingly reported them trapped. Last week the guerrillas were acting more like rats in a corncrib than like rats in a trap. They had attacked trains, convoys, supply dumps, command posts, burned or terrorized towns, driven thousands of Koreans from their homes. They seemed to be centrally directed...
...much they succeeded in extorting depended largely on how serious U.S. commanders considered the Chinese threat. In the Pentagon there was a great deal of unmilitary handwringing, accompanied by woebegone predictions that the Chinese intended to barrel right on south to Seoul and perhaps to Pusan. In Korea, however, the view was changing somewhat. The serious U.N. supply difficulties looked less serious when Chinese prisoners reported that their food and ammunition had run low a few days after they had crossed the border...
...French and pro-French civil population has been evacuated by sea, the Moncay airfield destroyed. The terrain held by the French is complex-a network of dikes, soggy paddy fields and island-like villages fringed with bamboo and banana trees. Inside this area (slightly larger than the Pusan beachhead held by the U.S. in Korea last August) are hidden pockets of Communist troops, in some places at battalion strength (600 to 700 men). For the moment they confine themselves to road sabotage, raids on isolated French forts, night visits to villages for rice...
...When once I had trouble in my heart to go to the U.S., the morning of Sept. 10 in Pusan a dog bit my leg just at the entrance of a church. I never touched the dog, never saw it before I was bitten. Then I saw blood on my leg. That tune my tired heart heard His voice saying: 'Where are you going...