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Navy Ships at Inchon. Inchon Before Chromite: A one-page fact sheet on the evacuation of civilians prior to the Inchon invasion. Navy online exhibit on Operation Chromite. Marine Operations in Korea, , page It shows the route taken by the invasion forces to reach Inchon. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

NH Wolmi-Do island under bombardment on 13 September , two days before the landings at Inchon. Swenson DD , one of whose 40mm gun mounts is in the foreground. Sowolmi-Do island, connected to Wolmi-Do by a causeway, is at the right, with Inchon beyond. Hahn; C The others present are from left to right : Rear Admiral James H. Doyle, U. Wright, U. Almond, U. Army, Commander, Tenth Corps. National Archives. SC Four LSTs unload men and equipment while high and dry at low tide on Inchon's Red Beach, 16 September , the day after the initial landings there.

Another LST is beached on the tidal mud flats at the extreme right. Note bombardment damage to the building in center foreground, many trucks at work, Wolmi-Do island in the left background and the causeway connecting the island to Inchon.

Swenson DD Lyman K. Swenson is in the background, with her crew at quarters on deck. Following up, eight big LSTs, which held tanks, ammo, and supplies, were run aground at the northern landing site. A calculated risk, air and naval supremacy made it a safe gamble for the LSTs. Scaling the tall manmade seawalls was difficult at times, as most of the ladders did not have hooks to attach to the top as to be secured.

Japanese hooked metal factory ladders had been destroyed by a recent typhoon; Navy wooden ladders were used. First Lt. Baldomero Lopez climbed and leaped over the seawall in front of his landing craft. Tossing a grenade, knocking out a machine-gun emplacement, he pulled the pin on another grenade when he was hit by fire, dropping it, next covering himself over it to save his men he had just inspired to follow his lead up from their LCVP.

Posthumously, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. Marine casualties in the Inchon Landing were nine killed and 47 wounded — one of the killed and 23 of the wounded were hit by friendly fire from panicky gunners on the LSTs that night. The 1, North Korean soldiers defending Inchon on the mainland had been dazed by the prior heavy bombardment from the sea and sky. They were, at any rate, impossibly outnumbered by the 70,man allied landing force at Inchon. In addition to the Marines, the 7th U.

Army Corps, would be landing at Inchon to followup the Marines. Ashore, he told his 10th Corps commander, Maj. On July 5, , the first battle …. Part 2 will run next week. One hundred years ago, on April 6, , Congress declared the U. On April 20, the largest open-car, ticker-tape parade in the history of New York City occurred. For nigh seven hours, over 19 miles, retiring five-star General of the Army Douglas MacArthur gloried in the adulation of 7 million spectators.

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With death-defying determination not to waste the blood of the fallen comrades they deal an annihilating blow to the enemy once more on the second day. What left are a few gunmen, one gun, and half a dozen rounds of shells. The plot contradicts U.

Today, Wolmi -do is firmly on the South Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone and is home to an amusement park and seafood restaurants. The film Operation Chromite , directed by John H. Lee, is one of the most recent cinematic depictions of the Inchon Landing. It boasted a hefty budget and starred Liam Neeson playing the role of MacArthur.

Through this mission, MacArthur hopes to gain necessary information on the natural landscape of Incheon as well as the state of North Korean defenses. Actually, Operation Chromite is loosely based on a real-life mission called Operation Trudy Jackson , which involved a mixed U.

Navy Lt. Eugene Franklin Clark and Lt. Youn Joung of South Korea. Edwards reads:. Using locals, he provided information about tides, mudflats, seawalls, and details on what enemy fortifications had been established. Battle of Jangsari: Forgotten Heroes , the second installment in the Operation Chromite trilogy , parallels its predecessor by focusing on a military operation executed in preparation for the Inchon Landing.

On September 14, the day before the Inchon Landing, South Korean soldiers were sent to Jangsari Beach in the small fishing village of Yeongdeok, southeast of Seoul.

The film focuses on the crucial but hopeless battle fought by the student-soldiers. Battle of Jangsari is based on a real mission which was kept secret for decades and it mostly draws attention to the plight of student-soldiers who were thrown into battles with little to no combat training and equipment. If the Inchon Landing was considered high-risk, then both the fictionalized and real-life Battle of Jangsari were suicide missions.

She is a recent graduate of the University of Virginia with her B. The views expressed are the author's alone, and do not represent the views of the U. Government or the Wilson Center. Copyright , Asia Program. All rights reserved. For a look at documentary footage taken by U.