Word: inchon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Heaven on One Side." Late that afternoon I went back to Wolmi. Sitting along the road to the Inchon causeway were the marines of Taplett's battalion, ready to jump off again. Tanks were already on the move. I climbed a small ridge with them and watched what they were going into. Inchon blazed against the darkening sky, and the air over the city was choked with fumes and cinders. But in the far west the brightness of the setting sun painted one last patch of sky a peaceful, soothing yellow. A Marine chaplain standing on the ridge with...
...lumbering Pershing tanks were rumbling over the causeway, and Taplett's battalion began to march slowly into Inchon...
...amphibious operations in Korea depended heavily on the highly specialized landing craft, which the U.S. developed during World War II. Among those used at Inchon...
...With the Inchon assault wave was TIME Correspondent James Bell.* His report...
...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...