December 1950
The first part of a decision-forcing case
You are Edward Mallory Almond, a career officer of the US Army. At present, you command X Corps. (The ‘X’ refers, not to the service formerly known as Twitter, but to the Roman way of writing the number ten. Thus, the name of the organization that you command is spoken as ‘ten corps’.)
On 15 September of 1950, your command, which then consisted of the 7th Infantry Division of the US Army and two-thirds of the 1st Marine Division, came ashore just west of the city of Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea that had fallen to Communist forces earlier that summer. In the weeks that followed, X Corps liberated Seoul and, while other United Nations forces moved north, began to prepare for another amphibious operation.1
According to a plan made by Douglas MacArthur, this second landing was to take place near the port of Wonson, on the east coast of Korea. However, before the naval forces of the United Nations cleared the anti-ship mines from the waters near Wonson, South Korean forces had captured that city. Thus, instead of repeating the kind of operation it had conducted at Inchon, X Corps conducted a pair of administrative movements to Wonson. In particular, while the 1st Marine Division moved by sea, the 7th Infantry Division marched overland.
The following excerpts from official US Army newsreels, which were made within days of the events in question, describe:
On 20 October 1950, X Corps assumed operational control of all United Nations forces in northeastern Korea. At first, these consisted of the Capital Division and the 8th Division, both of the Army of the Republic of Korea (ROK). In the weeks that followed, three American divisions - the 1st Marine Division, the 3rd Infantry Division, and the 7th Infantry Division- assembled in the vicinity of Wonson.
Over the course of the month of November, X Corps advanced to the north and to the east. In particular, as two ROK divisions moved up the coast, two American divisions pushed north into the interior. (While these operations took place, the 3rd Infantry Division, the last major element of X Corps to arrive in Korea assembled north of Wonson.)
X Corps now possesses five infantry divisions. Three of these, the 1st Marine Division, the 3rd Infantry Division, and the 7th Infantry Division, were provided by the United States. Two, the Capital Infantry Division and the 8th Infantry Division, belong to the Republic of Korea.
The following video describes the service of these five divisions during the month of November 1950.
The UN Campaign in North East Korea
In the Korean War, the armed forces of the United States and its allies fought under a mandate from, and the flag of, the recently formed United Nations Organization.
The links will take you to the channel of The Tactical Notebook on Bitchute.