Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Military handbooks allow 160 days for readying a landing of such magnitude. Beginning Aug. 16th, Almond drafted the plans for the Inchon landing by the 28th, had his X Corps (the U.S. 1st Marine and 7th Infantry Divisions plus South Korean units) on the sea and moving to the target by Sept. 10, went ashore on the 15th, secured the Inchon-Seoul-Kimpo area and completed his mission by October 7th-two weeks ahead of schedule and a total of 53 days from start to finish of brilliantly executed Operation Chromite...
...Inchon campaign. He was host at a dinner for Marine regimental commanders, giving weatherbeaten Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller of the 1st Marine Regiment the place of honor. On the Inchon waterfront Almond saw tanks loaded aboard LSTs. He flew in a Piper Cub 200 miles south to inspect the 7th Infantry Division in another staging area; he watched the doughfeet, stripped to the waist in the warm South Korean sun, maneuver through combat exercises in paddy fields and up hillsides...
...7th Division was recently reinforced by 8,000 South Koreans. In a 100-mile tour of the 7th's area, Almond asked one officer after another how the Korean troops were getting along in their training. All told him of difficulties arising from the language barrier. Said one colonel: "We may have to rewrite our own training program after teaching the Roks. I am convinced that we have devoted too much time to lectures and too little time to demonstrations. With the Roks, it's no use to talk. You just have to show them over & over; finally...
...Tuesday morning Baker received an order to head northward from Poun and keep going until he linked up with the U.S. 7th Division. At 11:30 a.m., his company took off-three Sherman tanks, preceded by three intelligence and reconnaissance jeeps. At Chongju, a group of weeping women told Baker's dust-stained men that the Reds in the town were holding their husbands and families as hostages and that all would be killed if the tanks continued their advance. Said Baker later: "Our orders were to go through, so we went through...
...Baker saw U.S. tank treadmarks on the road just below Suwon. He halted his column and jumped out yelling: "This is 1st Cavalry. This is 1st Cavalry!" G.I.s of the 7th Division, who were dug in by the roadside waiting to take care of what they thought was a Red advance, recognized his vehicles. Baker had led a dash of 106.4 miles in eleven hours, had tied the U.N. advance from the south with U.S. troops in the north. It was a slender thread soon to become a mighty noose around 50,000 enemy troops...