The Battle Of Chosin

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The Battle of Chosin

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Reference:  http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/oct/31/american-experience-battle-chosin/

Reference:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chosin_Reservoir

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Note:  On November 1, a Secret Service Officer was killed while he was protecting President Truman
Was this a false flag event?  You Decide!  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Coffelt
Though mortally wounded by three bullets, Coffelt returned fire moments later and killed one of the attackers with a single shot to the head. The other was convicted by a federal jury and sentenced to death; Truman commuted the sentence to life imprisonment and the man was released from jail in 1979.

Harry S. Truman^[b] (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953), taking the office upon the death of
 Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (/ˈroʊzəvəlt/;^[1] January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and emerged as a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century. Roosevelt directed the United States federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. As a dominant leader of his party, he built the New Deal Coalition, realigning American politics into the Fifth Party System and defining American liberalism throughout the middle third of the 20th century. His third and fourth terms were dominated by World War II. He is often rated by scholars as one of the three greatest U.S. Presidents, along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York to a family made well-known by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. FDR attended Groton School, Harvard College, and Columbia Law School, going on to practice law in New York City. In 1905, he married his fifth cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt. Together, the couple had six children. He won election to the New York State Senate in 1910, and then served as Assistant Secretary of the Navyunder President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. Roosevelt was James M. Cox's running mate on the Democratic Party's 1920 national ticket, but Cox was defeated by Warren G. Harding. In 1921, Roosevelt contracted a paralytic illness, believed at the time to be polio, and his legs became permanently paralyzed. While attempting to recover from his condition, Roosevelt founded the treatment center in Warm Springs, Georgia, for people with poliomyelitis. In spite of his medical condition, Roosevelt returned to public office by winning election as Governor of New York in 1928. He was in office from 1929 to 1933 and served as a Governor for reform, promoting programs to combat the economic crisis besetting the United States at the time.

With the 1932 presidential election, Roosevelt defeated Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide. 

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression. A Republican, as Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s he introduced Progressive Era themes of efficiency in the business community and provided government support for standardization, efficiency and international trade. As president from 1929 to 1933, his ambitious programs were overwhelmed by the Great Depression, which seemed to get worse every year because of his insistence on immediately paying for the increasingly large-scale interventions he made in the economy. Hoover was defeated in a landslide in 1932 by Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt and spent the rest of his life as a conservativedenouncing big government, liberalism and federal intervention in economic affairs as Democrats repeatedly used his Depression record to attack conservatism and justify more regulation of the economy.

He became a successful mining engineer around the globe and retired in 1912. In the First World War, Hoover built an international reputation as a humanitarian by leading relief efforts in Belgium during the war, and in Eastern Europe afterwards.

WHAT REALLY CAUSED THE MARKET CRASH?  WE KNOW GEORGE SOROS HAS REPEATEDLY CRASHED ECONOMIES. #WeNeedAnswers .........

Hoover defeated Smith in a landslide, but the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office. Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression in the United States with large-scale government public works projects such as the Hoover Dam and calls on industry to keep wages high. He reluctantly approved the Smoot–Hawley Tariff of 1930, which sent foreign trade spiralling down. He believed it was essential to balance the budget despite falling tax revenue, so he raised the tax rates. The economy kept falling and the unemployment rate rose to 25%, with heavy industry, mining and wheat and cotton farming hit especially hard. This downward spiral, plus his support for prohibition policies that had lost favor, set the stage for Hoover's overwhelming defeat in 1932 by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, who promised a New Deal. Most historians agree that Hoover's defeat in the 1932 presidential election was caused primarily by the downward economic spiral, although his strong support for prohibition was also significant.

Hoover became a conservative spokesman in opposition to the domestic and foreign policies of the New Deal. He opposed entry into the Second World War and was not called on to serve in any public role during the war. He had better relations with President Harry S. Truman and Hoover helped produce a number of reports that changed U.S. occupation policy in Germany. Truman also appointed Hoover to head the Hoover Commission, intended to foster greater efficiency throughout the federal bureaucracy and Hoover served on a similar commission under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. By the time of his death in 1964, he had rehabilitated his image. Nevertheless, Hoover is generally not ranked highly in historical rankings of Presidents of the United States.

General McArthur placed speed over caution.

A plane did something never done by the military before – they dropped the part of the bridge that was out, for the soliders to return to Hagaru.  There was 24 feet broken off.  The temperature was 50 below zero.

On 9 Dec1950, the USMC get the order to go back and they went over the newly prepared bridge.  Snipers hit them on their way. They could only hope they were not going to be the one killed.  It took two days for the whole division to cross the bridge.

The temperature immediately went up to 32 degrees and enemy fire stopped.  They were so exhausted, they fell to the ground and slept. 

The Chinese won, yet suffered staggering casualties.  

Casualties

It was so cold that their blood froze, which saved many. Yet some froze to death. The temperature was 30 to 50 below zero when they were there.  

Everything was too cold to make foxholes.  

A librarian literally said, “All of that transpired courtesy of the Chinese intervention”. Location is between 80-85 minutes.

On 3December1950, they marched into Hagaru.

North Korean civilians lost their homes from American bombers prior to Chosin.  Refugees streamed through the military convoy leaving North Korea. The moanings were horrible at night.  There were a total of 90,000 North Korean civilians who got out. 

Planes dropped supplies.

He went on to become a doctor yet the horror of those days will always be a part of who he is............

This is him in North Korea..................

The military were completely surrounded yet they were refused help – I provide a statement regarding General McArthur’s actions being politically motivated

US Intelligence knew that Chinese and Russians would enter North Korea through Chosin. Interrogations of prisoners also proved there were masses of Chinese ready to fight and General McArthur had the audacity to say he did not believe that. 

USMC General Oliver P. Smith opposed McArthur’s strategy because he endangered all the lives of the military in this very serious threat.  The border of North Korea aligns with China and a portion with Russia.  Both China and Russia had communist leaders.  This is why North Korea is communist.  General Smith was arduous with his requests.

Mao Tse Tung had won a civil war a year earlier, so he was pumped.

First Day at Chosin:  The Chinese hit hard and then they disappeared. Their strategy played into McArthur’s arrogance.

USA were surrounded on ALL sides

Nobody retreated even though Smith had much fewer men.

Second Night: They hit much harder.  Men lost limbs. Many died. 

There was a motley crew at Hagaru.  Included were the cooks, maintenance, service & supply.  General Smith disposed a skeleton crew to surround Haragu and defend the perameter.

General Smith pushed the engineers to build air strips immediately.

Third Day at Chosin:       General Smith requested reinforcements, air support.  922 men commenced to travel to Chosin as reinforcements.  The Chinese managed to intercept the convoy.

Driesdale asked Smith if he should return with his men.  General Smith said No. They were badly needed.  Their convoy was heavily attacked by Chinese.  Less than half of their soldiers remained, and straggled into Hararu.   

    General   McArthur
 flying to North  Korea.  Planning on telling them there is nothing he can do.

His famous ironic quote:

“I shall return”

The Air Support went so low, the military on the ground could see the pilot’s faces – this was a very dangerous mission since it made them more vulnerable.  The bombers used napalm, which explodes and then covers a large area. 

One plane dropped a napalm bomb on the troops.  This was a very horrible and preventable circumstance.  There is never mention of who caused this to happen.  And President Truman used this additional loss to his political benefit, to get more military funding AFTER THE FACT.  Men died screeming in agony. 

Mao Tse Tung

General Oliver P. Smith 

General McArthur - and as you can see,
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Sniper fire still existed.  They had no food or water and had to keep walking.  The Chinese use road blocks.

Many Chinese were captured as prisoners the THIRD DAY, when the air support arrived.  The prisoners slowed up the convoy and the military would yell at them.  Many Chinese prisoners died.  Nearly half of their army were killed or wounded.  Yet Mao kept the Chinese coming, despite their poor clothing and conditions.

They had to give the badly wounded morphine and set them aside to die because they did not have enough support to care for them.

At ‘Coterie’, the USMC had to make choices. 

The Dead had to be left.  They were stripped of their clothes and supplies for others to use for survival. They blew up a section in the frozen ground and placed all the bodies in it and covered them using a bulldozer.  117 men were buried. Lt McGuiness was with the dead.    

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