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...around us lay the invasion fleet. It felt good to see the APAs and LSTs and other craft spread far across the sea. Ashore, our third battalion was already assaulting Wolmi Island (see above). Rumors flew about that the Wolmi assault was a bloody one. That made us all quite nervous. Then we heard that the assault was easy, and casualties light. That made us feel better about going after Inchon that afternoon...
...pall of purple smoke hung over Inchon. Our boat passed Wolmi, seized by our third battalion earlier in the day; it seemed battered and beaten, and great beige scars lay on its green hillside...
...established a CP in a house on the hill just below it. The smoke and dust were beginning to lift from Inchon's waterfront area. The fighting was sporadic. One patrol brought in a rather staggering prize: a whole platoon, led by its lieutenant, from the third battalion of the 26th North Korean regiment, the outfit defending Inchon. The patrol had moved in on the platoon, which gave up without a fight. The Korean lieutenant, eager to be cooperative, told Jaskilka that much of his battalion had been killed in the two-day shelling of Inchon. Those who survived...
Bulging Briefcase. From 1931 to 1939, like many another officer of his training-minded corps, Smith was almost constantly in school, as teacher or student. In the spring of 1941, a lieutenant colonel, he was given command of a battalion and shipped off with three other Marine battalions to Iceland. The browned-off marines in Iceland solemnly assessed the place as the "sinkhole of the world," but there was never a word of complaint in Smith's letters to his family...
...personally devised shorthand, he made voluminous notes on the island, and when the Marines were relieved in March 1942, the incoming Army commander-a two-star general-took over Colonel Smith's transcribed notes as the military bible for the station. After taking his battalion to San Diego, Smith was ordered to Washington and duty on the Corps' Plans & Policy Division ("Pots & Pans...