Red Eclipse: Halting the Communist Drive on Seoul
The massive Chinese offensive in 1951 aimed to destroy the U.S. Eighth Army and drive it from the Korean Peninsula.
Here s What You Need to Know: The blunting of the Chinese spring offensive amounted to the most decisive defeat the Communists had yet suffered in the war.
By mid-April 1951, the war in Korea was nearly 10 months old. United Nations forces had suffered a reversal of fortunes in late 1950 with the entry of Communist China into the war, losing the South Korean capital of Seoul but later regaining it. Now the U.S. Eighth Army, a multinational force that was dominated by American leadership and troops, found itself engaged in limited offensive operations near the 38th Parallel in the wake of General Douglas MacArthur’s removal by President Harry Truman as U.N. Supreme Commander and U.S. commander in chief in the Far East. The new supreme commander, based in Tokyo, was General Matthew B. Ridgway, who had led Eighth Army
Red Eclipse: How Allied Forces Halted the Communist Drive on Seoul in 1951
The massive Chinese offensive in 1951 aimed to destroy the U.S. Eighth Army and drive it from the Korean Peninsula.
Here s What You Need to Know: The blunting of the Chinese spring offensive amounted to the most decisive defeat the Communists had yet suffered in the war.
By mid-April 1951, the war in Korea was nearly 10 months old. United Nations forces had suffered a reversal of fortunes in late 1950 with the entry of Communist China into the war, losing the South Korean capital of Seoul but later regaining it. Now the U.S. Eighth Army, a multinational force that was dominated by American leadership and troops, found itself engaged in limited offensive operations near the 38th Parallel in the wake of General Douglas MacArthur’s removal by President Harry Truman as U.N. Supreme Commander and U.S. commander in chief in the Far East. The new supreme commander, based in Tokyo, was General Matthew B. Ridgway
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