ABSTRACT
General Ridgeway, who replaced General MacArthur as Supreme Commander, was in his opinion one of the outstanding combat soldiers. The Japanese had felt that, while people had made great progress in the health and welfare fields, they desired a group of advisors in those fields to continue on after the occupation. The communists had overrun a British brigade and had penetrated to a position just south and west of his command post. The First Cavalry Division, which had been in reserve, had been moved quickly to the northeast to attempt to plug the hole east of the Twenty-fourth Division. During this battle, which lasted for a number of days, the communist offensive was finally stopped because of the military wisdom of Eighth Army commander General Van Fleet, in deploying his troops in depth rather than attempting to hold the line very thinly over a very wide front.
