Operation Blueheart

The 22nd of July, 1950, was the original date set by General MacArthur for Operation Blueheart. Blueheart was the plan to invade the North through Inchon, a plan carried out several months later, 15 September 1950, as Operation Chromite.



While the plan was drawn, and MacArthur was ready for an immediate response to the North Korean advances, there were just not enough troops to hold the advancing North Koreans and still pull out enough to make the end-around invasion. It was necessary to wait until the middle of September before elements of the First Marine Division were available, with the 7th Infantry Division, to make the highly successful assault.



One must wonder what the outcome would have been if the earlier attack had been possible.

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Senior Fellow, Paul M. Edwards