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thedrifter
09-06-02, 12:43 PM
The Korean War <br />
by Joseph Leach <br />
MacArthur had a plan he said would end the war. He wanted an amphibious landing on the port city of Inchon. Inchon was about half way up the west coast of the...

Dick Olson
09-18-02, 10:29 PM
Not to be argumentitive. You wrote an excellent article. Just one flaw and it's kind of major.

Chesty led the 1st Marines, not the 5th.

The 5th was led by Lt. Col Ray Murray.

Though I wasn't there at the time of inchon, I went over with the Brigade, was wounded on the Naktong and recuperating in Japan at the time of Inchon.

The brigade was put together in a rush at the request of McArthur. Chesty would probably have killed for the chance to command it. But he was in Hawaii at the time. And Murray had the command.

He later became a Major General. It's rumored he was medically retired because he wouldn't keep his mouth shut about the Goddam Army's poop performance in Korea. If that is true, I feel he had every right to such an opinion

(that word poop above should have read poor, but on reflection I thought poop fit better.)