Word: inchon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Hazards. Technically, at least, the landing would be the toughest MacArthur had ever attempted. Inchon's tide, said Admiral Doyle, is one of the world's greatest. The highwater mark comes only three days each month, and the Inchon basin can be worked only at the crest of the tide. This would give the landing force but four to eight hours out of 24 for movements of men and supplies...
...beachhead around Pusan, General Walton Walker's Eighth Army (four U.S. divisions, five South Korean divisions and a British brigade) went over to a general offensive. The aim was to break the enemy ring and link up with the U.N. forces fighting their way east from Inchon. Initial advances along the 120-mile perimeter were spotty. Nevertheless, at week's end Walker's men had established bridgeheads on the west bank of the Naktong...
...there appeared so far no clinching sign that the enemy was in general retreat or that his morale had cracked. He still counterattacked, resisted fiercely, took back several nameless ridges. He had plenty of ammo. For days his own radio kept mum about the Inchon landing. U.N. planes dropped 3,000,000 leaflets, breaking the news and calling on him to surrender or die. At week's end his choice was still death, not surrender...
...passes points on the earth's surface that are moving less & less rapidly toward the east in the earth's rotation. The tidal range of Korea's western coast is further increased because the incoming water is forced into narrow, shallow channels and heaped up there. Inchon, which lies on the western coast of the peninsula about 20 miles up a narrow channel, has an average tidal range in the time of the new and full moon of about 27 ft. On Sept. 15 the tide at Inchon rose 31 ft. But Inchon's tides...
...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...