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...strikes softened Inchon's beaches and all land approaches to the port. As Admiral James H. Doyle's task force approached, six destroyers gamely plowed ahead, drew and silenced the fire of hidden enemy batteries on Wolmi island. Several ships were damaged, one severely. Then the U.S. ist Marine Division hit the beaches...
Under Major General Oliver P. Smith (see below), the ist Marines had been assembled from stations as distant as the Mediterranean and as near as the Pusan front...
...thing for Smith to be late getting into the war, or not to get into it at all. He had to wait in California while his assistant division commander, Brigadier General Edward Craig (TIME, Aug. 14), took advance elements of the ist to Korea for the first Marine battles there. In World War I, Smith, as a fledgling Marine officer, had been sent to Guam-of all places-where the only German he might have sighted (he did not) would have been Count Luckner, the Kaiser's famed sea raider. Pearl Harbor found Smith in-of all places-Iceland...
...British and French troops to test Western defenses against "an invasion by superior enemy forces from the East," began in Germany this week. The green-clad "invaders," a U.S. armored force, struck from the borders of Soviet-held East Germany and Czechoslovakia, forced back the British ist Royal Dragoons, Algerian troops from the French zone, and miscellaneous U.S. forces including regiments hastily summoned from Austria and Trieste. French, British and American planes whined overhead. Even the U.S. Navy joined in, with small craft on the Rhine. After retreating, the defenders were scheduled to "regroup" and then wage a "victorious counterattack...
Major General Hobart R. Gay, commanding general of the U.S. ist Cavalry Division, sat on a pile of rocks in a little village about 1,000 yards from a Communist roadblock that had cut off two of his battalions...