Word: wolmi
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...have read scores of great historians whose descriptive passages will live forever as truth and literature, but never have I read anything more vividly beautiful than Frank Gibney's description of the taking of Wolmi Island [TIME, Sept. 25], beginning with "Inchon blazed against the darkening...
Bouquets to you and your reporters, Frank Gibney and James Bell, for their stories of the assault waves on Wolmi and Inchon. Man, that's reporting...
...with the third assault wave on Inchon and was present at the taking of Kimpo airdrome, cracked up in a jeep accident (see PRESS) and is now in a Tokyo hospital. Tokyo Bureau Chief Frank Gibney, one of the first four U.S. correspondents to hit the beach at Wolmi Island with the marines, went along with them across the Han River and into Seoul before returning to Tokyo to file copy for this week's issue. Gibney, who was injured in a Han River bridge explosion on the fourth day of the war, has been ordered home...
...pronged assault on Seoul, one from the northwest along the north bank of the Han, the other from the southeast through the industrial suburb of Yongdung, south of the river. Before the north prong could get going, a battalion under Lieut. Colonel Robert Taplett-whose outfit had stormed Wolmi Island last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 25)-had to cross the Han. Taplett's men had brought along amtracs (amphibious tractors), but the first crossing was not easy...
...still hung from the last rocket explosions and air and ground reeked with cordite fumes. Marines were running in every direction. After a moment I caught sight of Captain Jaskilka standing straight and calmly surveying the situation. He trotted on 150 yards to a small, gutted building near the Wolmi causeway. There he met his executive officer, 1st Lieut. Gilbert R. Hershey (son of Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey). "They all got ashore fine, skipper," reported Hershey...