JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF PROPOSED WAR PLAN FOR 1949
The eleven pages below are copies of the Joint Chiefs of Staff proposed War Plan presented to Brigadier General Maris in May 1948. Obviously there was not very good communications within the Joint Chiefs of Staff sections as the War Plan proposes using the six divisions already in the Far East as part of the plan. Elsewhere, as a result of "Operation Crabapple" the Department of the Army directed the departure of the 11th Airborne Division from Japan to the United States by the end of 1948. That same plan called for the 7th Infantry Division to leave South Korea and move to Japan to replace the 11th Airborne Division which was headquartered in Northern Japan. Those same directives mandated the inactivation of the 6th Infantry Division with personnel on hand being designated as the 5th Regimental Combat Team. That unit was directed to leave South Korea by the end of June 1949 to return to Hawaii. Those actions left only 4 combat divisions in Japan and one Regimental Combat Team in the Ryukus. The documents shown below are images taken from the originals located in the records of the Far East Command which are located at NARA II in College Park, Maryland.
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