Talk:Battle of Taegu

Inconsistent rank of Paik Sun Yup
Under the command of Major General Paik Sun Yup, this division fought an extremely bloody defense of the mountain approaches to Taegu.[40]

According to Paik's own memoir From Pusan to Panmunjom, he was a Colonel/Brigadier General around that time, and he did not receive the rank Major General until mid 1951. Furthermore, Major General rank is only reserved for corps commander in ROK Armed Forces, and Paik was a division commander at the time. Did US Army Center of Military History made a typo here? Jim101 (talk) 04:01, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Apparently so. Appleman's US Army History book, Chapter 19 (avaliable here) even has a photo of Paik specifically listing his rank as major general on page 350. Do you have a page in his bio I can use as a ref to change it in this article? — Ed! (talk) 04:08, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * According to his memoir on page 28, he was promoted to Brigadier General on July 27, 1950, and he was promoted to Major General in April 1951, per page 139-140. So I think that seal it. It is interesting that Appleman did not make the same mistake in his next Korean War book Disaster in Korea. Jim101 (talk) 04:32, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

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