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To: arizzzona who wrote (85745)	5/24/2002 5:34:10 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116810

MacArthur looked great at Inchon. It was his finest hour. And very nearly a flub if there had been any kind of resistance or the mud had been any deeper. But he looked bad in the Phillipines when he got his aircraft destroyed on the ground. Why? Did he believe they could not withstand the Zero (i.e. outclimb it) and he would lose valuable pilots? Or did he not understand air war? If the planes had run and hid, they would have given the Japanese advance a lot of trouble and bought time for a pullout. He talked back about invading China. He was right there at least. With the F-86 and better tactics they could have outmanoeuvered the slow and unwieldy Chinese army with multiple landings and paratroopers. The mass attack was finally stood off with good automatic weaponry, quad fifties and squad BAR's. The stalemate in the hills of Korea could have been broken with by outflanking them and bombing the hilltops incessantly, a card only the US had. Eventually the hilltops crumble, no matter what the depth of the tunnels, as no one can sleep, and there could be no resupply. It was also proven by the Pats that battalion level surprise attack could take just about any hill. The Flying Tigers proved that the air arm of the Japanese could be defeated by better pilots and tactics, even given the Zero's strengths of manoeuverability and climb rate. So too, the Mig could be, and was defeated. The US had carrier logistics then the Chinese could only dream about. It would have taken 4 years and perhaps 250K casualties to reduce the Chinese defence to tatters and force a surrender. That is a price we should have paid then. But problems today with 20 other nations, I will admit, we would still have. EC<:-}