Argument
Aug 1950 in Inchon (Incheon) harbour and the approach to Seoul, Korea: Pusan plus a map of Inchon. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Yellow Sea approaches, Wolmi, the tidal basin, the road to Seoul.
Pusan as the other 1950 map that made this one possible.
Maps
The tides
15 Sep in Inchon (Incheon) harbour and the approach to Seoul, Korea: Wolmi and the city pulses. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Seoul
16-28 Sep in Inchon (Incheon) harbour and the approach to Seoul, Korea: Capital recapture. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Exploitation
Oct 1950 in Inchon (Incheon) harbour and the approach to Seoul, Korea: KPA collapse in the south; UN goes north. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Memory
After in Inchon (Incheon) harbour and the approach to Seoul, Korea: USMC liturgy; Seoul museum; the Yalu shadow. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Portrayals
Douglas MacArthur biographies
The usual English doorway into Battle of Inchon: Forced Chromite through, then overreached north. Relieved 11 April 1951 for a later argument.
Arthur Dewey Struble biographies
The paired doorway: The naval joint commander of the landing -- under-photographed.
School survey chapters
Where Battle of Inchon (15-19 September 1950 (landing and city; Seoul follows to 28 Sep)) is a paragraph or a unit in US/UK/AU/CA -- often thinner than Inchon (Incheon) harbour and the approach to Seoul, Korea local hours.
Local museums / sites in Inchon (Incheon) harbour an.
Thicker than the English paragraph. Memory is the usual late pilgrimage caption.
Feature film / television
If Battle of Inchon has a visual canon, it probably outruns the monographs. Treat film as memory, not as a log.
Korean civic halls and curricula
Battle of Inchon belongs in Seoul classrooms and the War Memorial circuit -- a civic file, not an English afterthought.
Rituals
1950-08 / 1950-10-25+ dates
The usual ritual poles of Battle of Inchon: Pusan holds and China enters.
Museum and cemetery wreaths
Official and family rites at sites in Inchon (Incheon) harbour and the approach to Seoul, Korea. Syngman Rhee is often the civilian or corrective name on the plaque.
Classroom minutes
Where Battle of Inchon is on the syllabus -- in Anglophone schools often beside 11 November or a Second World War unit, not always beside Inchon (Incheon) harbour and the approach to Seoul, Korea's own calendar.
Sayings
Walk the War Memorial before the USMC print. Both, not either.
Overlord tourists who never hear of Inchon are missing the Korean War's operational hinge.