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INVASION OF INCHON
Army Overview of this phase
09/15/50, about 7:00 a.m.
Off Green Beach, as Inchon burns beyond Wolmi Do
Wolmi-do Island, Inchon, 9/14/50
Before The Assault: Wolmi-do Island, Inchon, 9/14/50
Afternoon, 9/15/50, Marines mop up die-hard defenders.
The Fighting Wantuck, APD 125, 09/12/50
Pre Invasion bombardment of Wolmi-Do from Destroyer group.
UN Offensive
Radio Hill, Wolmi-Do, 9/15/50
Dwayne Boice, 3rd Battalion 5th Marines, burns out North Korean weapons emplacement
The Inchon Landing
At The Point of the entire UN Counter Attack, 9/15/50
The Inchon Landing
The Korean War
Bombardment of Red Beach, 9/50
5th Marines soon will assault to take its Cemetery Hill.
Inchon
Appleman: The Landing at Inch'on
Assault on Red Beach, 5th Marines, 9/15/50
Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez
Breakthrough at Inchon
5th Marines control Red Beach from captured NK trenches, 9/15/50
Wolmi-do's peak, right, dominates assault areas
1st Marines assault Blue Beach during the Inchon invasion, 9/15//50
Navy LSMR rocket salvos plaster the landing areas.
Col. L. B. "Chesty" Puller, "fierce and utterly fearless", waits as his 1st Marine Regiment prepares for their part of the Inchon invasion, the assault on Blue Beach.
Amphibious Tractors (Amtracs) carry the 1st Marines towards Blue Beach.
Inchon
MacArthur greeted by Marine General O. P. Smith, 9/17/50
Comes ashore at D+2, Yellow Beach
T34s on the Road to Seoul, 9/50
Destroyed by Marine Infantry of D/2/5
1st Marines work through Yongdongpo, 9/50
The Squad leader helps steady his nerves with the ubiquitous cigarette
On the road to Seoul, 9/50
Col. "Chesty" Puller and Brig. Gen. Craig
As a colonel, Edward A. Craig led his regiment in combat on Guadalcanal
When the brigade, after its victories in the Pusan Perimeter, was deactivated in September 1950, its troops were merged into a reformed 1st Marine Division for the assault at Inchon, and Craig reverted to his former billet as assistant division commander, which was his responsibility in the photo with Col. Chesty Puller above.
Across the Han, 9/50
Seoul and its wrecked bridges covered by machine-gunners
I Company, 5th Marines capture Hill 125
Marine Rescued Under Heavy Fire, 9/50
Seoul, 9/50
First Marines Fight From Captured NK Barricade
Seoul, 9/50, 1st Marines
Wounded Marine Evacuated under sniper fire
Seoul, 9/50
Marines Clearing Tunnel
1st Marine Division, Seoul, 9/50
Anti-Sniper Action
Marine Rifle Platoon from E-2-5, 1st Marine Division, 8/50
Brief history of this Platoon by a Fellow Platoon Leader
Death on a dusty road
A dying Marine, on the road to Seoul. c9/50
Agony of last moments eased by morphine from Navy Corpsman
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