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Dates: during 1950-1950
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MacArthur called his one-day visit to Formosa "a short reconnaissance of the potential of its defense against possible attack." Acting under Washington's order to guard the island against Communist invasion, he promised "effective coordination between American forces under my command and those of the Chinese government." As for Chiang's offer to send Nationalist troops to Korea, MacArthur replied that they were more needed in Formosa's defense...
...days later, while Taipei crowds looked up and cheered and China's chief of staff, General Chou Chih-jou, literally jigged in delight at Hsinchu air base, six U.S. F80 Shooting Star jets streaked over from the Philippines. Also from the Philippines came Major General Howard M. Turner, commander of the U.S. Thirteenth Air Force, and from Tokyo came Brigadier General Alonzo P. Fox, Deputy Chief of Staff for the U.S. Far East Command; they would make a more detailed survey, expedite U.S. aid, set up a liaison staff. Coordination would probably include a Nationalist armed forces training program...
...Soviet army newspaper Red Star reported last week (reassuring nobody) that the Russian High Command had ruled out "bourgeois" blitzkrieg and surprise attacks because they yield only a temporary advantage. Inspired by Stalin's leadership toward "the sacred goal of the triumph of Communism," the High Command is working out an "invincible" military science, Red Star said. The new science emphasizes morale: "The decisive factor of war remains the human being ... In an army conducting an unjust war, there cannot be that passionate desire to be victorious without which, in fact, there cannot be victory...
...avoid the disaster of inadequate medical help at the critical time, said Bradford, the U.S. should abolish the separate medical services of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and establish a simple, unified medical command, directly responsible to the Secretary of Defense. Once established, the unified service must then be allowed to operate "without the blundering interference or control of other services, and without the stupid mismanagement of line officers...
Last week 40-year-old Correspondent Moore left the 24th Division command post between Masan and Chinju and headed for the front in a jeep. He never got there. Next day, the Americans withdrew from the area. At week's end, Bill Moore was still missing, the ninth newsman killed or missing while covering the Korean...