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Into the Breach at Pusan - The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade in the Korean War (Hardcover)
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Into the Breach at Pusan - The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade in the Korean War (Hardcover)
Series: Campaigns and Commanders Series
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In the opening campaign of the Korean War, the First Provisional
Marine Brigade participated in a massive effort by United States
and South Korean forces in 1950 to turn back the North Korean
invasion of the Republic of Korea. The brigade's actions loom large
in marine lore. According to most accounts, traditional Marine
Corps discipline, training, and fighting spirit saved the day as
the marines rescued an unprepared U.S. Eighth Army, which had been
pushed back to the ""Pusan Perimeter"" at the southeastern tip of
the Korean peninsula. Historian and retired marine Kenneth W. Estes
undertakes a fresh investigation of the marines' and Eighth Army's
fight for Pusan. Into the Breach at Pusan corrects discrepancies in
earlier works (including the official histories) to offer a
detailed account of the campaign and place it in historical
context. Drawing on combat records, command reports, and
biographical materials, Estes describes the mobilization,
organization, and operations of First Brigade during the first
three months of American participation in the Korean War. Focusing
on the battalions, companies, and platoons that faced the hardened
soldiers of the North Korean army, he brings the reader directly to
the battlefield. The story he reveals there, woven with the voices
of soldiers and officers, is one of cooperation rather than
interservice rivalry. At the same time, he clarifies differences in
the organizational cultures of the U.S. Army and the Marine Corps.
Into the Breach at Pusan is scrupulously fair to both the army and
the marines. Estes sets the record straight in crediting the Eighth
Army with saving itself during the Pusan Perimeter campaign, but he
also affirms that the army's suffering would have been much greater
without the crucial, timely performance of the First Provisional
Marine Brigade.
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