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This man once followed the famous American General Patton on the battlefield on the European battlefield in the Second World War, and the offensive style of his troops was the same as that of his superior, General Patton. Its offensive posture must be to destroy and decay, and the momentum is like a broken bamboo. As a result, the U.S. 20th Army he led earned the nickname "Ghost Army" for its unexpected speed of attack, and his daimyo was also thunderous in the U.S. army, and was deeply valued by General Patton.
Patton then considered him the best of his subordinates, and he was General Walker, known as the "Tiger Dog".
Tenacious resistance
When the Korean War broke out, General Walker was also reused as part of the U.S. Eighth Army under the United Nations Army, and he was the commander of this army group. In August and September 1950, he led his army along the Nakdong River in South Korea, resisting the successive attacks of the North Korean People's Army with fewer troops and a lack of equipment.
Despite this, due to the insufficient strength of the U.S. army, many troops have not yet landed in South Korea, and the South Korean troops are demoralized and sluggish. Its equipment is mostly defensive, and it lacks offensive weapons such as heavy tanks and heavy artillery. At this time, the "United Nations Army" units were far from reaching the Korean Peninsula. Therefore, on the long 225-kilometer-long defensive line in the Busan defensive circle, the resistance of the US and ROK troops was extremely difficult.
Tough defense
However, in the end, the US Eighth Army still struggled to hold the defensive line, and began to gradually reverse the situation before the Inchon landing, and began to turn into a counter-offensive on September 10, 1950, the battlefield entered a stalemate for a while, and the KPA offensive that lasted for more than two months was stopped. Five days later, on September 15, after the "United Nations Army" successfully landed in the Inchon area, the 8th Army led by General Walker began to rush through the KPA line and marched northward.
If you put aside your position, the performance of General Walker at this time alone, he defended the "Busan Defense Circle" in the initial disparity in strength and equipment shortage, which can also be said to be a way to turn the tide on the Korean battlefield. Without his resolute resistance and the time to buy time for the UN army to land, I am afraid that it would be difficult to resist the tidal offensive of the KPA with only the "Busan Defensive Circle".
But no one expected that such a general, who was about to add a fourth star to his shoulder, "would sink into the sand on the icy road of North Korea." During the Second Campaign, the United Nations Army received orders for MacArthur's evacuation on December 3.
The unlucky general died in a serious car accident on 23 December while preparing to build a new military defense line north of Seoul. At this time, he was preparing to go to the 25th Infantry Division of the US Army to add a medal to his son who had just been awarded the medal, but this task was obviously impossible to complete. On the tenth day after his death, he was awarded the rank of four-star general of the U.S. Army, and it is really unexpected that such a general who turned the tide on the Korean battlefield bid farewell to the battlefield in such a sudden way.
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