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.
Truman would fire MacArthur in April 1951 for a different argument -- but Chromite made the general politically almost untouchable for a season. UN/ROK killed in the Inchon-Seoul operation are usually given in the hundreds. KPA dead and captured were much higher. Civilian deaths in Seoul's recapture are part of a wider 1950 urban ledger -- use ranges, not a fake precision.
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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.
Truman would fire MacArthur in April 1951 for a different argument -- but Chromite made the general politically almost untouchable for a season. UN/ROK killed in the Inchon-Seoul operation are usually given in the hundreds. KPA dead and captured were much higher. Civilian deaths in Seoul's recapture are part of a wider 1950 urban ledger -- use ranges, not a fake precision.
Surprise, naval/air preparation, KPA overstretch in the south, and a plan fitted to tides. It was not magic and not costless. Tides, mudflats, channels, and seawalls -- Inchon was a hydrographic nightmare on paper. The sceptics were not cowards; they were sailors who could read a chart.
No. It ended the first campaign. The war continued until 27 July 1953, after Chinese intervention. MacArthur at UNC; Admiral Doyle afloat; General Almond (X Corps); Marine generals (Smith and others) on the landing force; ROK units under the same operation.
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