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Re: People of the Phillipines, I have returned


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Posted by oldtanker on October 22, 2014 at 17:25:14 from (64.118.3.75):

In Reply to: People of the Phillipines, I have returned posted by Bret4207 on October 22, 2014 at 16:08:47:

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At the time Mac landed the Formosa plan was dead. Originally there were going to take the Philippians as a step off to take Formosa. Witt the causalities they took taking the smaller islands they decided that the northern route would be cheaper by far. So to my understanding Mac did throw a fit at a meeting with Roosevelt and Nimitz. Roosevelt saw the political gain to be had if they did take the Philippians so he's the one who approved the attack. At that point in time the Philippians had no strategic value. The sea lane between the Dutch East Indies (their oil supply) was pretty much closed due to US subs. So having airfields in range of the sea lane wasn't needed.

I've read a bunch of books on Mac and most either paint him as a hero or a smuck. Very few books try to be objective on Mac.

Now jump forward. The US Army Chief of Staff was totally against the Inchon landing. That was Mac's plan and they didn't like it. The tides in that area are terrible and when the tide is out everything sits in a giant mud flat. The brass was concerned that the troops and supply ships would be sitting, easy targets for land base artillery and air attack. The plan was brilliant because if you look at any place you could land troops that's the last one you would ever pick. I think it's called the Flying Fish Channel that's 20 plus miles long through the mud flats. So the area was lightly defended because the NK's though no one would be dumb enough to attack there. He also had an armor unit break out of the Pusan Perimeter as a distraction and to pin the front line forces. After all while under attack it really hard to break contact and move to another location to defend. Excellent plan and it worked.

Mac's downfall in Korea was his reliance in his intel officer who had been with him all they way through WWII. This guy got handed intel about the Chinese and refused to believe it because it didn't come from his people. He also told Mac just a week or two before the north attacked that nothing was going to happen in Korea. In almost every case of an Army level intel officer making that kind of blunder saw them relieved of duties. Mac never did that to him.

It's also in print that when Mac was in West Point his mother live in a motel right outside the gate and he was allowed to visit her everyday. Is it true? Was he coddled through West point?

Rick


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