Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LCVP (Landing Craft-Vehicle, Personnel), carried on LSTs or assault transports, has bow ramps, carries 36 men, a one-ton truck or four tons of cargo. Length: 36 feet...
...clear that within Inchon Bay the U.N. assault craft would be sitting ducks, held in a narrow channel with no room to move about or dodge attack. Larger craft would have to lay out some seven miles. LCVPs and LCMs would need 90 minutes to make the run from mother ships to beach with troops and equipment...
...Inchon is the worst possible place we could bring in an amphibious assault along the coast of Korea," admitted Admiral Doyle, "but it is also the only possible place where our assault will carry out its purpose: to land, cut off and destroy the enemy...
...left the beach in an LCVP which was taking casualties back to the LSD. There were surprisingly few. Only 17 marines had been wounded in the attack, none of them fatally. The assault had succeeded so well for two reasons. It had been made where the North Koreans had not suspected we would hit in force. And the superb sea-air-land teamwork, far smoother than any I had seen in World War II Pacific campaigns, had never given the enemy a chance either to dig in his troops adequately or to bring up reinforcements...
With the Inchon assault wave was TIME Correspondent James Bell.* His report...