Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...initial phases of the strike for Seoul were brilliantly successful. Strategic success seemed highly probable; whether victory was far or near depended on whether Walker had enough men in the south to take advantage of his opportunity to seize the initiative...
...Samchok, important port and rail town. South Korean commandos raided the beach above Pohang. Then South Korean marines struck at Kunsan on the peninsula's west coast. But that, too, was a feint. The enemy did not suspect that the place would be Inchon, the port of Seoul, 150 miles northwest of Taegu. But Inchon it was, in spite of a formidable high tide* and a treacherous, silt-filled channel...
...enemy's beachhead resistance was negligible. Within the first four days of their assault, the marines stormed Wolmi, swept through Inchon and seized Seoul's Kimpo airfield. Advancing rapidly, they entered the capital's suburbs, prepared to cross the Han River and get astride the communications to the south and the rear of the enemy's army around the Pusan perimeter. This week the enemy rallied; on the edge of their advance the marines came up against stiffer resistance...
...Everything the enemy shoots, and all the additional replenishment he needs, have to come down through Seoul. We are going to try to seize that distributing area, so that it will be impossible for the North Koreans to get any additional men or more than a trickle of supplies into the present combat area...
Between the U.N. anvil at Seoul and the U.N. hammer at Pusan the bulk of the enemy's strength would be pounded. "By employing [our] two great advantages," predicted MacArthur, "we are going to wrest the ground initiative from him . . . If that can be accomplished, these [Communist] forces will sooner or later disintegrate...