Word: inchon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unknown to the U.S. public and the troops in the field, General MacArthur had received approval of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for his daring invasion plan at Inchon...
...make shift with what troops were already at hand, shuttling them from one crisis to another. The next reserves due to arrive-the bulk of the 1st Marine Division from the U.S. and the 7th Infantry from Japan-were earmarked for Operation Chromite, the invasion at Inchon...
Before the attack on Inchon General MacArthur issued to his troops a conventional statement explaining the military purpose of the operation (TIME, Sept. 25). Last week Moscow's Pravda "translated" his statement into Communist Russian: "Before you is a rich city. In it are many sweets and wines. Take Seoul and all the girls will be yours. The property of the inhabitants belongs to the victors and you can send it home in packages...
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...
Three other newsmen were wounded in Korea. Most seriously hurt was NBC's 24-year-old cameraman, Gene Jones, who with his twin brother Charles was taking newsreel pictures of the Inchon invasion. Soon after he hit the beach, Jones was badly wounded by shell fragments. On the Han River with Marines driving toward Seoul, 23-year-old William Blair Jr. of the Baltimore Sun was shot in the back by a sniper. The New York Times's Harold Faber was shot in the thigh while covering an Eighth Army assault across the Naktong River...