The volunteer soldiers at the Watergate Bridge fought fiercely, all because of Smith, a man who was desperate to escape. The First Marine Division Smith openly resisted the order to retreat (escape), how dare he? Obedience is the duty of a soldier, what will he do in the future?
However, Smith's ending was unexpected.
In the movie "Chosin Lake's Water Gate Bridge", the volunteer soldiers lay on the ice and drank snow, fighting against technology with loyalty and courage, and the victories were not easy to come by, and countless audiences were excited and wet with tears.
The blood of the ancestors is worth remembering, but the pressure from the opponent is also worth facing. After all, only by respecting the opponent can we truly respect the efforts of our predecessors.
There is such an impressive scene in the movie:
On one side was the ice and snow of the roar of war, and on the other side was the staggered Tokyo headquarters, and MacArthur, a five-star general of the US Army, stood condescendingly on the second floor of the banquet hall, as if everything was under control.
At this time, the battlefield was urgently called, and Major General Smith of the US ace elite 1st Marine Division reported that he would retreat immediately! MacArthur flatly refused, shouting a solemn reprimand: "If you dare to retreat, you are treason!" ”
Smith hung up the phone indifferently, and with no expression on his face, he issued an order to the lieutenant next to him to retreat immediately!
The plot of the movie is compact, the follow-up battle immediately follows, and the overall operation of the US army is also rapidly unfolding around the water gate bridge that must be protected by the retreat.
The great contradiction was obscured: how dare Smith, as the commander of the First Marine Division, openly disobey the orders of his superiors, MacArthur? And after disobeying, can you continue to command the army normally and freely? All deployments of the U.S. military also followed this decision to retreat (escape)?
Isn't it the duty of a soldier to obey? What happened to Smith, who blatantly reneged on this duty, after the war?
Could it be that the movie fictionalizes the plot?
The truth is that the plot of the movie is not fictional, but it is true in the historical facts. Smith dared to turn a deaf ear to MacArthur's orders for three reasons:
1. Smith himself has a clear understanding of the battlefield
MacArthur and Almond repeatedly demanded that the First Marine Division move quickly north, while Smith risked ruining his military career and "disobeyed" again and again.
Throughout the Chosin Lake Campaign, he took at least two key moves to save the First Marine Division from extinction. The first was to have the 1st Marine Division march north at "turtle speed" (15 km, and the 1st Marine Division walked in a long snake formation for 13 days), and the second was to build an airfield in Hagaru-ri.
2) Smith has always been dismissive of MacArthur, even calling him overage
In the Korean War, which of the "United Nations Army" units led by the United States was the strongest? There is no doubt that the US 1st Marine Division.
Major General Oliver Smith, the commander of the strongest Marine Division 1st Division, was an arrogant man.
It was such a person who actually served as a captain in the US army for 17 years, which became a miracle in the US army. However, by the time of World War II, the outbreak of the Pacific War finally created an opportunity for him to climb up, he became the battalion commander of the 1st Battalion, 6th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, and in the war that made the United States glorious, many American soldiers had achieved honors without exception, of course, Mr. Smith, without exception, rose to prominence in the Battle of Berli sulfur island, and then rose all the way to the deputy commander and chief of staff of the United States Marine Corps, and by July 1950, when the Korean War began, Mr. Smith was promoted to the commander of the First Marine Division.
The arrogant Rear Admiral Smith had the strongest Marine Corps, and the result of this combination was invincibility.
3) Smith knew that the President of the United States and MacArthur were not in the same heart
Anyone familiar with MacArthur knows that this man is pretentious and extremely vain, never misses an opportunity to "perform", he wants to be the center of any occasion, he likes the crowd to cheer up, and he likes the media to flash the spotlight.
In MacArthur's eyes, even the president had to give him three points. President Truman at that time, seeing MacArthur's appearance, had all kinds of discomfort, because MacArthur never gave Truman the respect he deserved, and once spit smoke rings into Truman's face.
When the Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff proposed that MacArthur be made commander-in-chief in the face of the Korean War, Truman agreed, though he did not like it. He did not appreciate this man, and basically recognized his combat ability.
Sure enough, after the war, out of political necessity, President Truman and Secretary of Defense General George Cartlit Marshall began to package Commander Smith, calling the successful retreat (escape) of the 1st Marine Division from Lake Chosin as an "epic legendary operation."
Fourteen people, including Smith, were awarded the Medal of Honor, bringing the total number of medals of various types to more than 240. After being packaged, Commander Smith became a hero who saved the First Marine Division and even the entire American Army, and was praised as a famous general.
The United States awarded a total of 17 medals of honor and 70 naval crosses to the Marine Corps operating on Chosin Lake, which is the largest number of combat medals awarded in the history of the U.S. military.
More than 70 years have passed, and the volunteer soldiers of that year have achieved a series of victories because they resolutely carried out the orders of their superiors, and the opponents of that year have also won a series of "victory" results because of different methods.
This may be due to different values, or it may be caused by different historical environments, and I only hope that people today can remember history and cherish peace.
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