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Quarterbaclcing. Marshall himself, with soldierly rectitude, resisted all opportunities given him to criticize MacArthur personally. Once, when fed a question about MacArthur's judgment in launching the ill-fated Yalu offensive, Marshall commented tartly on "Monday quarterback-ing." "It is awfully easy to tell what is the right thing the day after," he said...
Marshall cited the case of the doctrine of "hot pursuit." It arose when the Chinese attacked across the Yalu. Said Marshall: "At that period, we suffered very directly and very seriously from the fact that we could not carry our air beyond the Yalu River, and at that time the Chiefs of Staff brought forth a proposal that we should introduce as a first step hot pursuit [of attacking planes into Manchuria], of which I was very emphatically in favor." The U.S. put the question to its 13 U.N. allies, all of whom opposed...
...biggest single air strike of the war, 312 U.S. planes- F-80, F-84, F-86 and Marine F9F jets, plus propeller-driven Mustangs and Marine Corsairs-last week smashed the big Red air base at Sinuiju, on the south bank of the Yalu...
...Communists, still working toward committing their air force against U.N. forces, have built 50 new air bases in North Korea, in recent months have built up their strength at Sinuiju, although they have a bigger & better field in their Manchurian sanctuary just across the Yalu at Antung. U.S. intelligence officers guessed that the enemy might launch a massive air effort against the allies, with the claim that it was entirely Korea-based, thus hoping to avoid U.N. retaliation against Manchuria...
...Unbombed Base. Other "inhibitions" were applied by Washington, MacArthur testified. The ban against bombing Chinese bases also applied to one Communist base 35 miles inside the Korean border.* That order apparently still stands. There was another. "As soon as we realized that the Chinese were moving across the Yalu in force," said MacArthur, "... I ordered the bridges across the Yalu bombed from the Korean side . . . That order was countermanded from Washington, and it was only when I protested violently that I was allowed...