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...months later the assault on Inchon bore out the editors' mid-July estimate of the situation and kicked off the third phase...
Early next morning, with Marine tanks alongside, Easy Company moved through the remainder of Inchon. Civilians were moving back into the town they had fled the day before. We met them along the road which skirts the city's southern flank. They lined the streets and intersections, cheered and clapped their hands. Marine veterans, who started out with rifles at high port, eyes scanning the buildings ahead and watching for mines, became a bit flustered at this demonstration of public affection. Soon they brought their rifles down from the ready and slung them over their shoulders...
...Koreans seemed to want to do anything to please. Old men ran out with South Korean flags. Women came forward with their hands up and smiling. The civilians of Inchon combed the city for known Communists, led U.S. troops to their hideouts, pointed out enemy soldiers who tried to sneak away with civilian clothes over their uniforms...
...most of the time. She ranges such a wide beat that her New York office seldom knows where she is. This week, after days of suspiciously un-Higgins-like silence, they learned from her first delayed dispatch that Maggie Higgins had landed with the fifth wave of marines at Inchon and stayed with them under mortar and rifle fire and grenades until the beachhead was secured. She was making good an earlier promise: "I walked out of Seoul, and I want to walk back...
With one big rush, the stock market last week wiped out the last of its losses caused by the Korean war-and then some. In the closing session of the week, the landing at Inchon pushed it still higher in a fever of trading that reached 820,000 shares in the last hour. Trading had soared past 2,000,000 shares for three successive days, and boosted the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrial stocks by 5.04 points...