U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 5 (of 5): Operations in West KoreaUnited States. Marine Corps
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U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 5 (of 5): Operations in West Korea
United States. Marine Corps
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Campaigns; United States. Marine Corps -- History -- Korean War, 1950-1953
To correct the situation, General Selden cautioned his units to avoid
unnecessary damage or destruction to the civilian economy. He directed
his commanding officers to keep unauthorized Koreans away from Marine
installations. Military police set up check points and instituted
roving patrols to enforce division controls. Civil violators were
turned over to Korean authorities or held for investigation before
release. Civilians who lived in the forward areas were removed to the
rear. They were prevented from going beyond STAYBACK until August 1952,
when a controlled passage system was instituted.
CHAPTER II
Defending the Line
_UN Command Activities--Defense of West and East Coast Korean
Islands--Marine Air Operations--Spring 1952 on_ JAMESTOWN--_End
of the Second Year of War--A Long Fourth of July--Changes in the
Lineup--Replacement and Rotation--Logistical Operations, Summer 1952_
_UN Command Activities_[69]
[69] Unless otherwise noted, the material in this section is
derived from: Cdr Malcolm W. Cagle, USN and Cdr Frank
A. Manson, USN, _The Sea War in Korea_ (Annapolis, Md.:
U.S. Naval Institute, 1957), hereafter Cagle and Manson,
_Sea War, Korea_; James A. Field, Jr., _History of United
States Naval Operations_, Korea (Washington: [Div. of
Naval Hist], 1962), hereafter Field, _NavOps, Korea_;
John Miller, Jr., Maj Owen J. Carroll, USA, and Margaret
E. Tackley, _Korea, 1951–1953_ (Washington: OCMH, DA,
1958), hereafter Miller, Carroll, and Tackley, _Korea,
1951–1953_.
Movement of the 1st Marine Division to the west was part of an Eighth
Army master plan to strengthen UN defenses and at the same time to
enable South Korean forces to assume increased responsibility in the
defense of their homeland. The tactical realignment in the spring
of 1952 put more South Korean infantry units on the main line of
resistance and buttressed the fighting front with five corps sectors
instead of four. In the far west, the I Corps positions were newly
manned (left to right) by the 1st Marine, 1st Commonwealth, 1st ROK,
and the U.S. 45th Infantry Divisions. Next in line was IX Corps, whose
left boundary General Van Fleet[70] had shifted further west, which now
had a divisional line up of the ROK 9th on the left, the U.S. 7th in
the center, and the U.S. 40th on the right.
[70] General Van Fleet, CG, EUSAK since April 1951, had
advocated a program in which South Korean troops would be
rigorously trained to take over an increasingly greater
part of the UNC defense efforts in Korea. See Mark W.
Clark, _From the Danube to the Yalu_ (New York: Harper
& Brothers, 1954), p. 185, hereafter Clark, _Danube to
Yalu_, quoted with permission of the publishers.
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