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Something Was Up. Then the whole aspect of the war changed suddenly and completely. Operation Chromite hit the North Koreans on Sept. 15. The Reds undoubtedly knew that something was up: carrier planes from Task Force 77 had been blasting Inchon, Seoul and Pyongyang for days. But the enemy, apparently, did not expect the blow to fall at Inchon; its 28-ft. tides made it the most difficult spot that MacArthur could have picked on the west coast...
...surmise that the Communists were running out of horsepower. U.S. intelligence reported two new North Korean tank brigades, ready for action but not yet committed, and equipped with 84 brand-new Russian T-34s. U.S. carrier-plane pilots, raiding behind the 38th parallel, reported damaging 35 tanks at Pyongyang-which seemed to indicate that enemy tank replacements were not drying up. Said General Walker: "I don't believe we're in great danger, but we may get a bloody nose. The enemy can still slug with both fists...
...small cabin off the 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...
...force returned some of its attention to hunting down Yaks. Corsairs, Panther jets and land-based F-80s made a two-day attack on airfields at Pyongyang and Yonpo, knocking out at least 30 enemy planes on the ground...
There were other, conflicting versions of what happened; the Communist Pyongyang Radio, which had falsely claimed the capture of two other correspondents earlier in the fighting, reportedly announced that Correspondent Fielder had been taken prisoner. At week's end, as stragglers continued to make their way out of the Taejon pocket and back to U.S. lines, there was no final word of Wilson Fielder's fate: he was listed only as "missing in action." He was the sixth U.S. newsman to be listed as a battle casualty in the war in Korea...