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Down in the Weeds - Close Air Support in Korea (Paperback)
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Down in the Weeds - Close Air Support in Korea (Paperback)
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Before the Korean War, the primary mission of Lt. Gen. George E.
Stratemeyer's Far East Air Forces was air defense of the Japanese
homeland. Most of the aircraft constituting Stratemeyer's inventory
were interceptors, not designed for the type of combat that would
be required now that the United States was joining in the UN effort
to end the war in Korea. The Joint Army/USAAF doctrine of 1946,
known as Field Manual 31-35, Air Ground Operations, was also
considered outdated in the present circumstance. A new approach to
warfighting had to be developed in response to the strong influence
of General Douglas MacArthur and other of his air officers in the
Army-dominated General Headquarters Far East Command. Close air
support of the ground forces as provided by Fifth Air Force came at
some cost, and tempers flared in the process, but the air
commanders in Korea never deprived the ground commanders of close
air support if it was needed. Indeed, without the close air support
provided to the airmen, the ground campaign would have been a much
more bloody and difficult affair than it was.
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