Word: inchon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Before the United Nations forces made last week's landing at Inchon, this was the situation...
...over Seoul, we were baffled by the recall message. The young pilots started for home in the mood of kids dragged from a party. Before we headed back to the Showboat, Ensign William Bailey vented some of his anger by blowing a warehouse at Inchon to bits...
...flag bridge of an Essex-class carrier, known in the fleet as "the Showboat," Admiral Edward Coyle Ewen sat sipping orangeade, explaining the targets for the next day. Task Force 77 was barreling along Korea's west coast, intent on blasting strategic targets at Pyongyang, Seoul and Inchon. While Ewen was talking, fuel and ordnance men readied the Showboat's planes...
During the week the South Koreans also made three amphibious landings. Two were on the islands of Tokchok and Yonghung, off the western coast, 35 and 17 miles respectively southwest of Inchon, Seoul's port. Presumably the purpose was to establish bases for U.S. air attacks on the enemy's coastwise shipping, and for a possible future seaborne attack on the mainland. On the southern coast, the South Koreans captured the town of Tong-yong, 25 miles southwest of Masan, across a narrow strait from Koje Island...
...east, where the mountains rise abruptly out of the Japan Sea, there are few good harbors. On the western side of the peninsula, the mountains slope gently into the sea and natural harbors are numerous, but their usefulness is reduced by huge tides. Inchon, the port of Seoul is bedeviled by 29-foot tides. The best harbor is Pusan, now held by the US from which in 1592 the Koreans sent a turtle-shaped ship, the world's first ironclad, to beat the invading Japanese...