Battle of Inchon (1950): Pusan holds
[10] [inchon-0-10] Battle of Inchon is the record of 1950 under “Pusan holds.” The figure to read with it is 08. Do not arrange states in a league. Fix who moved what, and where, to that year. Do not add a later war into the same total. Wolmi-do fell in the morning; the evening tide put Marines and soldiers onto the city. Kimpo airfield and the Han crossings opened the fight for Seoul, declared re
A landing at Kunsan or closer to Pusan would have been orthodox. Inchon promised to cut the Seoul-Pusan axis and collapse the KPA from the rear. The price was hydrography. Admiral Doyle's staff turned tide tables into a two-pulse landing (morning Wolmi, evening city). Naval gunfire and carrier air prepared Wolmi-do. Marines climbed seawalls. The city fight was short compared with Seoul's street week.
Almond's X Corps -- Marines and 7th Infantry, with ROK units -- was a MacArthur instrument as much as a joint team. Syngman Rhee and MacArthur's ceremony in the damaged capital was political theatre on a clock. The KPA in the south was already breaking toward the parallel. Atrocities and civilian harm in the recapture week belong in the ledger -- a Korean city, not an empty stage.
Success licensed the UN crossing of the 38th. China's warning was discounted. Inchon's afterlife is the Yalu as much as the seawall. Truman would fire MacArthur in April 1951 for a different argument -- but Chromite made the general politically almost untouchable for a season. A landing that reversed 1950 -- and helped cause the war's next, Chinese chapter.
Say Battle of Inchon with 1950, “Pusan holds,” and 08. The figure is not a national score.1950
Figures to keep
- Year of the action
- 1950
- Figure in the record
- 08
- Action
- Battle of Inchon
- Line of the front
- Pusan holds