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The Columbian
January 25, 2018
On another vessel, “We hauled prisoners out of Pusan and Inchon: 1,000 POWs a trip, to a prison island. “Some of the Chinese were 14. They'd been given a rifle and a bag of rice and shoved toward Korea,” said Bauer, a former state senator and long-time teacher. “There were some with no legs and noÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
January 25, 2018
Formed a century ago, the 11th Marines have served in every major conflict America has fought since World War I, including quashing guerrillas in Nicaragua; the World War II battles on Guadalcanal, New Britain, Peleliu and Okinawa; duty in Korea's Pusan Perimeter, Inchon and the Chosin Reservoir, plusÃÂ ...
ColaDaily.com
January 24, 2018
Lee L Kier, 79, of Columbia, South Carolina passed away January 21, 2018 at Providence Hospital, in Columbia SC. She was born on September 7, 1938 in, Inchon City, Korea to the late KA Ye KIM and IL NAM YI. Mrs. Kier married her husband Eldon on April 15, 1964. Lee is survived by sons; Eldon (Kim)ÃÂ ...
Southern Maryland Online
January 23, 2018
Clifford Lyle Bates, 86, of Charlotte Hall, MD, a retired District of Columbia firefighter, died January 20, 2018. Born in Barrington, Illinois he was the son of the late Benjamin and Gladys Bates. In addition to his parents, his brother Ted Bates, brother-in-law Michael J. Paduda Jr., in-laws Margaret and MichaelÃÂ ...
Times Colonist
January 18, 2018
After pulling off a daring invasion at Inchon harbour, he drove the North Koreans back to the 38th parallel. The Korean War was over. The UN mandate, procured by the U.S. as a fig leaf, had been fulfilled. Canada to this point was not present. But the Americans had invited Canada to send a unit to share inÃÂ ...
The Times
January 17, 2018
After the war, Hays considered leaving the military to become an air stewardess, but remained and in 1950 was deployed to a chilly, supplies-deprived field hospital in Inchon during the Korean War. On one night the hospital took in 700 patients. The region was attacked by Chinese and North Korean forcesÃÂ ...
NextShark
January 17, 2018
... lives on in grateful memory. Lee, a Chinese-American Marine, is remembered by many for single-handedly driving Chinese attackers away during the Battle of Inchon in 1950. ... But in 1950, Lee became the first lieutenant of a machine-gun platoon that shipped out to Inchon on Sept. 21 to attack NorthÃÂ ...
Roanoke Times
January 14, 2018
Al served in a Self-Propelled Artillery Battalion, landing at Inchon, Korea in September 1950, and fighting for a year straight. Al survived this fighting uninjured, and was awarded the Korean Service Medal with two Bronze Service Stars, and the United Nations Service Medal for his service. After his ArmyÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 11, 2018
The photo was taken on the set of “Inchon,” a 1981 Korean War thriller. Looking dashing with his raven hair and Elvis cheekbones, Mr. Reed, then at the height of his fame as a journalist and television personality, played a music critic stuck in a war zone; Mr. Olivier — Laurence to most of us — played Gen.
Bowling Green Daily News
January 11, 2018
The U.S. had lost heavily at the Inchon Reservoir and many of us were called up to fill the gaps. My high school class of 365 guys were a very good source of fresh meat. I had watched my draft number draw ever closer as my classmates were picked. Nearly all went into the Army. I volunteered for the AirÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
January 10, 2018
In 1950 during the Korean War, elements of the regiment deployed to the Pusan Perimeter while other crews landed at Inchon. They endured brutal battle at the Chosin Reservoir and then along the Western Front before returning to Camp Pendleton in 1955. The streamer honoring that service was toted byÃÂ ...
The Tand D.com
December 30, 2017
27 and flew to Atlanta to board Korean Airlines and fly to Inchon Airport. After a two-hour layover, I went on to Busan, South Korea -- my hometown -- arriving there around 7:55 p.m.. After visiting with my sisters and their families for a few days, I went to visit my mother in Gimcheon, South Korea. My motherÃÂ ...
Pierce County Tribune
December 30, 2017
After storming ashore at Inchon and fighting house-to-house in Seoul, George Company, one of America's last units in reserve, found itself on the frozen tundra of the Chosin Reservoir. They were facing elements of an entire division of Chinese troops, outnumbered ten to one. David Douglas Duncan was aÃÂ ...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
December 29, 2017
On June 25, 1950 all-out war broke out when Communist North Korea invaded Capitalist South Korea after a series of clashes on the border. The devastation was insurmountable and the war has never officially ended between the two nations, even after a UN enforced partition along the 38th parallel. Kim Il-sung shut hisÃÂ ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
December 28, 2017
He took part in the famous Inchon Landing on South Korea's west coast, and his unit, the 2nd Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, fought all the way into North Korea to the Yalu River on the border with China. “It was all frozen. It was really bad because we didn't have all the (right) equipment,” Tahara recalledÃÂ ...
DoD Live
December 28, 2017
... around my bed were folks with the USO Holiday Tour who were visiting patients in the hospital that day. I can also remember in 1987, while I was on a deployment to the Mediterranean, I heard “Proud To Be An American,” by Lee Greenwood for the first time. He was performing on USS Inchon (LPH 12).
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
December 28, 2017
We landed at Inchon, Korea, on Sept. 15, 1950. During the Battle of Seoul, I received a concussion from a shell burst and spent three days in the hospital. I asked to be discharged from the hospital to rejoin my outfit.” Abby Weingarten may be contacted via email at Abby_Weingarten@Yahoo.com.
NPR
December 27, 2017
WALSH: The year Dawn Blitz began in 2010, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates questioned whether the Marines would ever stage another amphibious landing on the scale of D-Day, Iwo Jima or Inchon. Among the problems? Anti-ship missiles have become cheap and readily available. They forced theÃÂ ...
Novinite.com
December 3, 2017
13 people were killed in a collision between a fishing vessel and a tanker off the west coast of South Korea, FOCUS reported, citing AFP. Aboard the fishing boat that had sunk after the impact, there were 20 passengers and two sailors. The incident occurred at around 6 o'clock local time near the port city ofÃÂ ...
WUNC
November 15, 2017
Dawn Blitz began in 2010, and at the time, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates questioned whether the Marines would ever stage another amphibious landing on the scale of D-Day, Iwo Jima or Inchon. One of the obstacles is anti-ship missiles, which have become cheap and readily available. They forceÃÂ ...
Hydrocarbons Technology
October 13, 2017
The Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS) completed their LNG terminal in Incheon, South Korea in mid-2002. The Incheon LNG terminal is one of the biggest in the world and began its operation with three storage tanks (each 100,000mó) and 360t/hour of regasification capacity in 1996. In order to meet increased LNG demand,à...
The National Interest Online (blog)
December 31, 1999
On June 25, 1950, the North Korean People's Army (NKPA) under Marshal Kim Il-sung launched a no-notice invasion of South Korea. Many are familiar with the failings of “Task Force Smith” in the first week of the war and MacArthur's brilliant landings at Inchon that September. Few, however, realize theÃÂ ...
Winona Daily News
December 31, 1999
He was born March 21, 1929, to Ed and Claire (Reuter) Sendelbach in Waumandee, Wis. Edward attended St. Boniface School in Waumandee and graduated from Arcadia High School in 1947. While still on the farm, Edward earned his pilots licenses in Winona. He graduated from Spartan School ofÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 22, 2017
When the Korean War came, he helped plan the Inchon landing in 1950 and then played a number of other roles in that conflict, including commanding an infantry regiment. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1961. General Rowny had some ideas on how the Army might better use helicopters, and inÃÂ ...
Lima Charlie News
December 19, 2017
In Korea he was assigned to General Douglas MacArthur, becoming his spokesman and one of the planners of the landing of Inchon (September 15, 1950), which forced a North Korean retreat and enabled the taking of Seoul. Gen. Rowny oversaw the rescue of U.S. Marines and Army troops at the ChosinÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online (blog)
December 5, 2017
Then in September came the U.S. Marine landing at Inchon, and the UN counteroffensive that sent the North Koreans reeling back north across the thirty-eighth parallel. But what if the Marines had never been sent to Korea? The Marines were only there because the Soviet UN ambassador boycotted theÃÂ ...
Novinite.com
December 3, 2017
13 people were killed in a collision between a fishing vessel and a tanker off the west coast of South Korea, FOCUS reported, citing AFP. Aboard the fishing boat that had sunk after the impact, there were 20 passengers and two sailors. The incident occurred at around 6 o'clock local time near the port city ofÃÂ ...
The Kathmandu Post
December 1, 2017
Recalling that only karateka Bimala Tamang was able to win medal (bronze) at the 2014 Inchon Asian Games among 23 disciplines Nepal participated in, Shrestha said that the players selection process must be transparent for the Asian Games and every players need to be informed about selection ...
Moberly Monitor Index
December 1, 2017
That June he found himself stationed near Inchon, Korea. After 14 months active duty, he was back in the States in May 1947. He was honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant. High on his list of priorities as a returning civilian was earning his GED and marrying Mary K. Bishop in Olathe, Kan., in 1947Â ...
The National Interest Online (blog)
November 23, 2017
Douglas MacArthur, well aware that the invading Korean People's Army was reliant on increasingly tenuous supply lines as it inched south, planned and oversaw a successful amphibious assault at the port of Inchon. The result was an abrupt reversal of fortune for a KPA on the brink of victory, with the ...
NK News
November 21, 2017
Similarly, Chuan station in Inchon became “Juan” under the new system. This applied to all languages, including Spanish, in which the letter JÂ ...
Merced County Times
November 17, 2017
Several thousand young men and I were packed on a troop ship which docked into Inchon harbor near Seoul and we were being told we had ...
Scout
November 17, 2017
The U.S. landing at Inchon in September ended the North Korean offensive, turning the tables and putting the Communists on the defensive.
WUNC
November 15, 2017
Decades After Inchon and Iwo Jima, Marines Try New Methods to Storm ... The amphibious landing at Inchon broke a stalemate for Gen.
Healio
November 15, 2017
Correspondence: Seung-Hyun Kim, MD, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, Korea University Anam Hospital, 73, Inchon-ro, Seongbuk-gu, ...
The Korea Herald
November 15, 2017
Led by a joint commando unit of South Korea's Navy and Marine Corps, the second landing operation in Incheon, spelled Inchon at that time, ...
Online Athens
November 13, 2017
Chosin Reservoir, Inchon, Heartbreak Ridge, Pork Chop Hill, Bloody Ridge, Tet, Hamburger Hill, Gulf of Tonkin, An Loc, Khafji, Qurah, Bagdad, ...
New York Times
November 13, 2017
15, United Nations forces landed at Inchon, and when tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers crossed into Korea in October, the squadron's ...
Newnan Times-Herald
November 12, 2017
Veteran of the Year Charles Irvin Kennedy (second from left) salutes the flag next to his family and fellow veterans during the National Anthem.
Chicago Tribune
November 12, 2017
The free concert will also include "Concord," "Songs from the Great War," "Flight!," "Inchon," selections from "South Pacific," "Bullets & Bayonets ...
Fairfield Daily Republic
November 11, 2017
Mickelsen was unloaded at Inchon from a landing ship when the 279th Regimental Combat Team became the last part of the 45th Division to ...
Glens Falls Post-Star
November 11, 2017
MacArthur had pulled off a brilliant invasion of Inchon, South Korea, cutting off some of the invading troops, but his insistence on nuclear ...
Scout
November 11, 2017
North Korea, having faced a quick reversal of fortune after the amphibious invasion at Inchon, is well aware of the threat of a seaborne attack.
Kdminer
November 11, 2017
The battalion was made up of reserves who had never fired the M26 gun before Inchon, and M26 drivers who had never driven the tank off a ...
Sharonherald
November 11, 2017
Beginning with the Marines' landing at Inchon, South Korea, Harbula's unit recaptured the capital city of Seoul before advancing into North ...
TCPalm
October 19, 2017
The Marines needed doctors for the war and Stewart joined the Marines 1st Medical Battalion in Inchon, Korea. Stewart was immediately sent ...
The National Interest Online (blog)
October 18, 2017
Following the remarkable amphibious assault by United Nation's forces at Inchon during the Korean War in 1950, there have been only a few ...
Juneau Empire
October 6, 2017
His ship, the U.S.S. Noble, was deployed to Korea as part of the Inchon Armada. In the summer of 1969, Barnett achieved a lifelong dream of ...
Scout
September 30, 2017
... the turn of the North Koreans to flee all the way up the peninsula to the Chinese border after U.S. Marines landed behind their lines at Inchon.
The Saratogian
September 29, 2017
USS Saratoga veterans from throughout the country toured Saratoga National Historical Park on Friday. Paul Post — ppost@digitalfirstmedia.
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