Word: yalu
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...carries on the war in Korea, he added, the U.S. should bomb beyond the Yalu, even though that means risking war with Russia. If the U.S. means to win victory in Korea, it should also apply a naval blockade even if it has to do so without allies. He would put U.S. air and ground troops into Formosa to help defend it, but he did not think that Chiang Kai-shek is in any shape to "conduct a significant operation against the mainland...
...superiority these days he attributes mainly to the fact that its combat pilots are handpicked, while the Communists have little high-altitude combat experience. Matter-of-factly, Colonel Meyer told how it felt to fight in the swirling, 700-m.p.h. battles each day 45,000 feet above the Yalu...
Instead of arguing-as had Marshall, Bradley and Collins-that bombing across the Yalu might bring World War III, Vandenberg was against it, for the moment at least, for his own reason: the job, he said, might chew up the Air Force and leave the U.S. "naked for several years to come" to Russian attack...
...whether MacArthur had ever disobeyed a directive. Bradley and Marshall had said no. Said General Collins: "There was one specific incident that did occur . . . one of the instructions that the Joint Chiefs had issued to General MacArthur was that he would not use anything but Korean troops on the [Yalu] frontier, and he did not comply with that. He sent American forces directly to the frontier without advising us ahead of time on it, and when we asked him, challenging his doing this, he said that he did it because of military necessity...
From MacArthur's headquarters at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel came a sharp rebuttal from Major General Courtney Whitney: "It had been the original policy agreed upon by everyone that, if possible, Korean troops should be utilized to occupy the area immediately south of the Yalu once that area was secured by our forces. As the ferocity of the campaign increased, however, it became impossible to accomplish the objective of clearing North Korea of enemy forces without the maximum employment of all our forces. The comparatively light South Koreans who first reached the Yalu area were destroyed...