U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 3 (of 5): The Chosin Reservoir CampaignMontross, Lynn
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U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 3 (of 5): The Chosin Reservoir Campaign
Montross, Lynn
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Campaigns; United States. Marine Corps -- History -- Korean War, 1950-1953
[43] 1stMarDiv _SAR_, 10. The classes of supply are as
follows: I, rations; II, supplies and equipment, such
as normal clothing, weapons, vehicles, radios etc, for
which specific allowances have been established; III,
petroleum products, gasoline, oil and lubricants (POL);
IV, special supplies and equipment, such as fortification
and construction materials, cold weather clothing, etc,
for which specific allowances have not been established;
V, ammunition, pyrotechnics, explosives, etc.
CHAPTER II
The Wonsan Landing
_ROK Army Captures Wonsan--Marine Loading and Embarkation--Two
Weeks of Mine Sweeping--Operation Yo-Yo--Marine Air First at
Objective--MacArthur Orders Advance to Border--Landing of 1st Marine
Division_
On 6 OCTOBER 1950, after the arrival of the initial assault shipping
at Inchon, General Smith ordered the 1st Marine Division to commence
embarkation on the 8th. Similar instructions were issued by X Corps
the following day.[44] Thus, the first troops and equipment were to be
loaded even before the G-2 Section of the Landing Force could begin
evaluating the enemy situation at the objective, since it was not until
8 October that the intelligence planners received X Corps’ OpnO 4,
published four days earlier. Summing up the outlook at the time, G-2
later reported:
[44] 1stMarDiv Embarkation Order (_EmbO_) 2-50, 6 Oct 50;
Smith, _Notes_, 394.
Inasmuch as subordinate units of the Division were scheduled to
embark aboard ship some time prior to 15 October 1950, it was
immediately obvious that preliminary intelligence planning, with
its attendant problems of collection, processing, and distribution
of information, and the procurement and distribution of graphic
aids, would be both limited and sketchy.... Fortunately ...
the section [G-2] had been previously alerted on the projected
operation, and while elements of the Division were yet engaged with
the enemy at Uijongbu, had requested reproductions of some 100
copies of pertinent extracts of the JANIS (75) of Korea. Thus it
was ... that subordinate units would not be wholly unprepared for
the coming operation.[45]
[45] G-2 _SAR_, 2. JANIS is the abbreviation for Joint
Army-Navy Intelligence Studies.
General Smith’s OpnO 16-50, published on 10 October, climaxed the
accelerated planning at Inchon. Worked out jointly by the staffs
of PhibGruOne and the 1st Marine Division, this directive covered
the Wonsan attack in detail and pinpointed subordinate unit
responsibilities.
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