Word: yalu
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...fastest jet fighters in Korea-the U.S. F-86 Sabre and Russia's MIG-15 -were hotting up the aerial combat phase of the air war. Near Sinuiju, on the Yalu River, last week there were two dogfights in one day. In the first, six MIGs tangled with four F-86s. The Sabre pilots shot down one enemy plane and counted as a "probable" a MIG that rolled on to its back and vanished into a ground haze...
...Division's 17th Regiment, which last month had stood briefly on the Yalu (it was the only U.S. unit to reach that fateful river), had also made its way down from the mountains to Hamhung. Altogether some 60,000 men of X Corps, including two R.O.K. divisions, were in the port area awaiting evacuation by a huge fleet of allied ships. Fresh troops, mostly 3rd and 7th Division units which had not been chewed up by prior fighting, manned a defense perimeter around Hungnam, the port...
...surface the U.S. went on about its business almost exactly as if the smothering hordes of Chinese Communists had remained massed, placid and inscrutable, behind the Yalu River. The season's last football games drew cheering crowds; the opulent department stores and streets were filled with millions going through the usual rites of Christmas shopping...
Where MacArthur's intelligence failed, however, was in not estimating correctly the number of Chinese that had crossed the Yalu, the fighting quality and discipline of the Chinese troops, and the heavy concentration at a point in their line against which MacArthur put his weakest forces, the Korean II Corps...
This line of reasoning is not supported by the course of the battle itself. It is now abundantly clear that the Chinese Communists had enough power across the Yalu to beat MacArthur whether he had attacked or not and no matter how he disposed his forces. The essential fact is that the U.N. forces had taken from the Chinese the beating that the Chinese have had the power to administer in any week since the U.N. forces first went into Korea. All the Security Council members who voted for the U.N. police action knew at the time that they could...