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...airfields, and without loss of a single aircraft, the formations blasted five North Korean power plants which supply not only 90% of all power for Communist North Korea, but also power for Communist Manchuria. The principal target was the great Suiho power project on the south bank of the Yalu, keystone of the hydroelectric development which pipes electricity to the Chinese "Ruhr" in Manchuria, to Soviet bases in Port Arthur and Dairen, and to the Russian port of Vladivostok. It lies only 3,000 ft. from Manchurian soil. The bombers spared giant Suiho Dam itself...
...truce is not reached and the Reds return to the offensive in Korea, using chiefly ground forces, the U.S. will limit its counterblows to Korea, will not allow its aircraft to cross the Yalu...
...there "should be no holds barred." But the Pentagon and the National Security Council do not agree. They have ordered Clark to bar all holds except limited hot pursuit. This weird phrase means that Clark's air force would be allowed to pursue Red planes back across the Yalu, but they would not be allowed to attack Red bases...
...have any prescription for bringing the thing to a decisive end . . . I believe we have got to stand firm and take every possible step we can to reduce our losses, and try to get a decent armistice out of it . . . There has been built up behind the Yalu River a very definite air strength that would make very dangerous any attempt to end the war at this moment, until we have a bigger buildup of our own." But he implies that he would favor counterattacks on China "if I am attacked in a broad way by anything that...
...thus the fattest target possible should allied airmen ever be allowed to cross the Yalu. Mukden, its population now swollen to more than 3,000,000, grinds out lathes, shapers, planers, boring mills, presses, air compressors, electrical motors and transformers for all of China...