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...Save Us a Little." Then, like the sound of a slammed door, the forward battery on the nearest destroyer opened fire on Wolmi. Other ships stepped up their salvos accordingly, and everything began to concentrate on the island...
...Wolmi commands Inchon harbor, and enemy guns from the island could wreck any attempt to land in the port area. Thus the proposition facing U.S. planners was simple: capture Wolmi fast, or the Inchon landing would fail...
...Happy." One battalion of marines had been assigned to capture Wolmi. They were good troops who had already fought well. The bulk of the enlisted men were youngsters of 18, 20 or 21. Slender, dark-faced Lieut. Colonel Robert Taplett, who commanded the battalion, said wryly: "Of course, this is the first time they've been in one of these...
...early morning of Sept. 15, when our LSD slipped into the channel leading to Wolmi, the atmosphere had grown tight. Shortly before 3 a.m. we saw bright, distant flashes of gunfire. The naval bombardment had begun. By 4:30 a tongue of flame was licking upward from the direction of Inchon. Aboard the LSD two lines of marines groped their way from troops' compartments to the three LSUs. A young marine said wistfully: "Three months ago I was so happy...
When dawn came, the marines seemed to draw encouragement from the sight of the three high-speed transports which had accompanied us, the two destroyers which stood in close to Wolmi, and the three rocket craft resting in a half-moon formation. "Lower the stern gate," barked a loudspeaker. The marines scrambled back to the landing craft; the low barrier separating the LSD's welldeck from the sea outside was cranked down. Slowly the tankand troop-laden LSUs backed stern first into the open...