Word: wolmi
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Christian." By 8 a.m. the battle for Wolmi was all but over. More than 100 North Korean bodies were scattered about the island-among them that of the North Korean battalion commander on Wolmi. Well before 10 Colonel Taplett told the Navy that the island was secured. From a tall staff near the top of a hill floated the U.S. flag...
...Heaven on One Side." Late that afternoon I went back to Wolmi. Sitting along the road to the Inchon causeway were the marines of Taplett's battalion, ready to jump off again. Tanks were already on the move. I climbed a small ridge with them and watched what they were going into. Inchon blazed against the darkening sky, and the air over the city was choked with fumes and cinders. But in the far west the brightness of the setting sun painted one last patch of sky a peaceful, soothing yellow. A Marine chaplain standing on the ridge with...
...around us lay the invasion fleet. It felt good to see the APAs and LSTs and other craft spread far across the sea. Ashore, our third battalion was already assaulting Wolmi Island (see above). Rumors flew about that the Wolmi assault was a bloody one. That made us all quite nervous. Then we heard that the assault was easy, and casualties light. That made us feel better about going after Inchon that afternoon...
...pall of purple smoke hung over Inchon. Our boat passed Wolmi, seized by our third battalion earlier in the day; it seemed battered and beaten, and great beige scars lay on its green hillside...
...could see the causeway from Wolmi to Inchon now. Our marines on the little island were spitting tracers at the sea wall on which we were so soon to land. We stopped dead in the water and waited. The rocket ships cut loose, their missiles tearing into Red Beach, turning it into a whistling, howling hell. The sea wall seemed as high as the RCA Building...