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Nov 8, 2019 · The difference between success or failure on the Korean Peninsula fell on the shoulders of the theater commander, US Army General Douglas MacArthur. His decision to execute Operation Chromite, a bold, combined arms, amphibious landing on the Korean west coast at Inchon, turned the tide of the war.
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On Sept. 1 – weeks after the war was supposed to be over – North Korea launched its last big push against the U.S. and ROK lines surrounding Pusan. As part of what would become known as the Great Naktong Offensive, the communists threw everything they had left at the Allied perimeter. It wasn’t enough. Two months of steadily increasing U.S. air str...
Before the conflict was even a week old, MacArthur ordered his staff to begin planning an amphibious assault at Inchon to relieve pressure on Allied forces as they retreated down the peninsula. This proposed landing, codenamed Operation Bluehearts, was to have taken place before the end of July. Unfortunately for MacArthur, Bluehearts was canceled ...
Documents captured in Pyongyang later in the war showed that the North Koreans knew full well about the landing at Inchon before the end of August, but could do little to stop it. Chinese intelligence had detected the buildup and the chairman of the People’s Republic personally passed the details along to North Korean leader. But the communists lac...
While MacArthur’s plan for the landing might have been more of a conventional move than a stroke of genius, his fierce conviction that Inchon was where the landing must occur was, in fact, inspired. The general could not have found a physically less suitable landing area for such an assault. The target was miles from the open sea and could be reach...
The physical challenges were only the start of MacArthur’s problems. The general also had to assemble an armada of ships to bring his army ashore. In the five years since the end of World War Two, the United States had junked the most successful and best-equipped amphibious force in history. By the time North Korea invaded the south, the U.S. Marin...
As MacArthur had predicted, the landing faced little opposition and U.S. casualties were relatively light – 225 killed and 800 wounded. Despite explicit warnings from the Chinese that an invasion was coming, the North Koreans failed to organize an adequate defence at Inchon. Pyongyang gambled that they could crush the UN forces at Pusan before the ...
Jun 15, 2021 · General MacArthur’s well-planned amphibious assault at Inchon, also known within the United States as Operation Chromite, was the U.S. reaction to this “localized conflict,” which often is classified as a proxy war between the United States and Russia.
Inchon lay just 16 miles from Seoul. MacArthur believed that United Nations forces would be able to easily liberate Seoul if they were to land at Inchon. The code name for the operation was Chromite.
The operation involved some 75,000 troops and 261 naval vessels and led to the recapture of the South Korean capital of Seoul two weeks later. [9] The code name for the Inchon operation was Operation Chromite. The battle began on 15 September 1950 and ended on 19 September.
Operation Chromite was the UN assault designed to force the North Korea People's Army (NKPA) to retreat from the Republic of (South) Korea. On 25 June 1950 the NKPA invaded South Korea,...
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Collectively, the ships fired 2,532 6” and 598 4” rounds in support of the Inchon landings. Operation Chromite was subsequently described in the House of Commons as ‘an audacious amphibious operation, executed most brilliantly’.
