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First Driblet. The South Koreans were in a complete and, apparently, hopeless rout. Suwon and its airfield were lost and Red flanking drives to the east were under way when the first driblet of U.S. ground troops-two battalions of the 24th Infantry Division-reached the zone of battle...
...Kimpo airfield was easier than expected. As the U.S. Marines moved west from Inchon toward Seoul, the only defense of Kimpo (South Korea's best airfield) was a brave but hopeless charge by several hundred green Communist security troops. The marines waited until the screaming Reds were a few yards away, then mowed them down. Said a sweating U.S. staff sergeant: "It was just plain murder...
...that what was done there could be picked up bodily, carried to any part of the world, and started up again." Two years ago, as commander of the Berlin airlift, Tunner carried the Hump operation to Germany. Last week he started it up again at Korea's Kimpo airfield...
After covering the hard-fought capture of Kimpo airfield last week, TIME-LIFE Correspondent James Bell headed back for Inchon to file his story. With him in a jeep were John Davies of the Newark News and Lachie McDonald of the London Daily Mail. As Bell later reported, "We were all quite happy to have survived the rather horrid night and three hours of North Korean banzai charges. The driver proceeded along the road to Inchon very carefully. One of us remarked how pleasant it was to be riding with a careful driver after the numerous 'army cowboys...
...fought; you had your cake and ate it. But at the same time a limited war was a strained thing, full of contradictions and paradoxes: Army divisions sailed under security orders with flashbulbs blinking and bands playing, and in Japan F-80 pilots ate breakfast were driven to the airfield by their wives, kissed these wives goodbye, and in an hour were dodging gunfire from the Korean valleys. And to the men in those valleys there was considerable question whether it was a limited...