Word: inchon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...five-man team of TIME Inc. reporters and photographers covered Operation Chromite at Inchon. Like most other newsmen, they had a tough time of it. Correspondent James Bell, who went in with the third assault wave on Inchon and was present at the taking of Kimpo airdrome, cracked up in a jeep accident (see PRESS) and is now in a Tokyo hospital. Tokyo Bureau Chief Frank Gibney, one of the first four U.S. correspondents to hit the beach at Wolmi Island with the marines, went along with them across the Han River and into Seoul before returning to Tokyo...
...this issue of TIME went to press, Correspondent-Photographer Carl Mydans, who had accompanied General MacArthur during the first stages of the Inchon operation, was with the marines on the outskirts of Seoul-as were LIFE Photographers David Duncan and Hank Walker. Duncan missed the Inchon landing when the bombers of the Far Eastern Air Forces, which he had planned to cover, were grounded by bad weather. Walker almost missed it, too, when his landing craft was rammed and nearly sunk by a South Korean gunboat on the way into Inchon harbor...
MacArthur had predicted that the Reds would find it impossible to try to contain both the Inchon-Seoul invasion beachhead and the Eighth Army's southeastern perimeter. They would have to take their choice. Last week they took it. They fought like tigers for Seoul and melted away in the south. Early this week, Eighth Army spearheads racing west and north from the old perimeter were only 25 miles from a link-up with the southern arm of the Seoul enclave...
Kimpo airfield was easier than expected. As the U.S. Marines moved west from Inchon toward Seoul, the only defense of Kimpo (South Korea's best airfield) was a brave but hopeless charge by several hundred green Communist security troops. The marines waited until the screaming Reds were a few yards away, then mowed them down. Said a sweating U.S. staff sergeant: "It was just plain murder...
Within hours, a U.S. helicopter landed at Kimpo, carrying high brass, and soon the big airlift transports were coming in (see below), adding more to the 4,000 tons of supplies shoved in by the Navy at Inchon every...