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Re: 人海战争
chennault was a reserve Lt-Colonel in 1939 while MacArthur already a retired full general. By the term of senority, MacArthur shd be the one to receive jap surrender.
When Chinese Volunteer forces pour across the yalu river, they achieve strategic and tactcial surprise at the beginning as they forced the US army on it longest retreat in history but peng dehuai loss all intiative when he use human wave against US fire power in entrenched position. After a million men lives lost, peng have nothing to show for and was purged in 1955.
Someone mentioned that Gen McArthur was a lousy general. He did not do a good job in The Philippines and lost the whole stretch of islands to the bloody Japs. The general who fought the Japs in the south of China with his famed Flying Tigers lost the honour of liberating China officially. I think McArthur had the honour of receiving the Japs' surrender instead, poor Chennault !
The Communist Chinese Army attacked McArthur's tank units when in he and the UN forces were in hot pursuit for the fleeing N Korean troops right into the Chinese border. Same tactic used against KMT troops lay. 300,000 against a smaller UN force ? 人海战争 again.
chennault was a reserve Lt-Colonel in 1939 while MacArthur already a retired full general. By the term of senority, MacArthur shd be the one to receive jap surrender.
When Chinese Volunteer forces pour across the yalu river, they achieve strategic and tactcial surprise at the beginning as they forced the US army on it longest retreat in history but peng dehuai loss all intiative when he use human wave against US fire power in entrenched position. After a million men lives lost, peng have nothing to show for and was purged in 1955.