Название: Buttoning up the Offensive: The Marines in Operation Killer
Автор: Lynn Montross
Издательство: US Marine Corps
Страниц: 12
Формат: PDF
Размер: 59 мб
Качество: хорошее
Язык: Английский
Год: 1952
As January gave way to February in 1951, the war in Korea had come to resemble a large-scale shoving match. Under slate-gray skies that leaked a constant drizzle of sleet, snow and freezing rain, two armies pushed each other back and forth through a miserable goulash of snow, slush and half-frozen mud. It was one hell of a place to fight a war. Too bad; it was where the war was, and the men who fight wars seldom have any say in where they are fought.
The entry of the Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) into the Korean War in late 1950 had at once saved the thoroughly battered North Korean People's Army (NKPA) from total destruction and rolled the American and allied forces back from the northern reaches of the Korean peninsula, driving them below the 38th parallel that separates the two Koreas. There, just below the line of demarcation, friendly forces hunkered down, caught their breath and prepared to meet the next Chinese thrust.
