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	Battle of Inchon Information
		The Battle of Inchon ended a string of victories by the invading North Korean People's Army (NKPA) and began a counterattack by United Nations forces that led to the recapture of Seoul.
		He said that because Inchon was heavily defended the enemy wouldn't expect an attack there, that victory in Inchon would avoid a brutal winter campaign and that by invading a northern strong point the UN forces could cut off North Korean lines of communication.
		Inchon is located in the western part of the Korean Peninsula.
	www.bookrags.com /Battle_of_Inchon (2217 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (B)
		The Battle of Algiers was a bitter conflict in Algiers from 1954 to 1962 between the Algerian nationalist population and the French colonial army and French settlers.
		The Battle of Culloden was a defeat in 1746 of the Jacobite rebel army of the British prince Charles Edward Stuart (the 'Young Pretender') by the Duke of Cumberland on a stretch of moorland in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
		The Battle of Navas de Tolosa was fought in 1212 between Yakub Almansur of the Almohades and the kings of Aragon, Castile and Navarre.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/F2.HTM (17055 words)

	Battle of Inchon - Information at Halfvalue.com
		A briefing led by Admiral James Doyle concluded "the best that I can say is that Inchon is not impossible." Officers at the briefing spent much of their time asking about alternative landing sites such as Kunsan.
		He said that, because it was so heavily defended, the enemy would not expect an attack there, that victory at Inchon would avoid a brutal winter campaign, and that, by invading a northern strong point, the UN forces could cut off North Korean lines of communication.
		The Kimpo airstrip was captured and transport planes began flying in gasoline and ordnance for the aircraft stationed at Inchon.
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=Battle_of_Inchon (2860 words)

	Lessons in Strategy and Leadership: MacArthur at Inchon > The Lessons of Inchon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Inchon's 30-foot tides, second only to the Bay of Fundy, are so extreme that it would be accessible to the invasion's landing craft on only two days in September 1950.
		Prior to Inchon, information collected from prisoner-of-war interrogations suggested that the NKPA had approximately 1,000 poorly trained troops in that area and confirmed that no attack was expected.
		The Inchon invasion was a catastrophic surprise to the North Koreans.
	www.phptr.com /articles/article.asp?p=364071&rl=1 (2438 words)

	USS Inchon (MCS 12)
		INCHON, the first ship to bear the name, was named in honor of the highly successful historic amphibious landing by General Douglas MacArthur at Inchon, Korea on September 15, 1950.
		In 1972, INCHON sailed on a world cruise for Norfolk, VA, to the Caribbean Sea, South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, South China Sea, Eastern and Western Pacific Ocean, through the Panama Canal, returning to the Caribbean and finally to the North Atlantic.
		It is for this reason that INCHON, as the "floating port," provides both a landing platform for MH-53E Sea Dragon mine-sweeping helicopters and repair and re-supply facility for Avenger class MCM ships and Osprey class coastal minehunters.
	navysite.de /ships/mcs12.htm (1083 words)

	Battle Of Inchon - Free English Encyclopedia from Turkcebilgi
		The Battle of Inchon (code name: Operation Chromite) was a decisive 15-day invasion and battle during the Korean War.
		The idea to land UN forces at Inchon was suggested by MacArthur after he visited the Korean battlefield on June 29 1950, four days after the war began.
		He said that because Inchon was heavily defended the enemy wouldn't expect an attack there, that victory in Inchon would avoid a brutal winter campaign and that by invading in a northern the UN forces could cut off North Korean lines of communication.
	www.turkcebilgi.com /ansiklopedi/english/Battle_of_Inchon (2290 words)

	Battle of Inchon - Definition, explanation
		The Battle of Inchon (code name: "Operation Chromite") was a decisive 15-day invasion and battle during the Korean War.
		During the amphibious operation, U.S. Marines under the command of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur secured Inchon and broke North Korean control of the Pusan region through a series of landings in enemy territory.
		He said that because Inchon was heavily defended the enemy wouldn't expect an attack there and that victory in Inchon would avoid a brutal winter campaign.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/b/ba/battle_of_inchon.php (1916 words)

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		The battle for "Heartbreak Ridge" started on 13 September with the 9th Infantry launching an attack on Hill 728, west of the main objective, and giving fire support to the First and Second Battalions of the 23rd who jumped off onto Hill 931, central peak of three heights on the ridge line.
		Hill 636, the gateway to the ridge objectives of the 38th, was stubbornly defended by the enemy and the initial attempt by the Second Battalion to wrest it from the enemy failed.
		The battle raged throughout the night and at 0530, the First and French Battalions summoned their last reserves of strength and launched a final assault on the crest.
	webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/KW_Battles.htm (19730 words)

	The Inchon Invasion
		For their loss, besides winning a major sea port, killing many hundreds of enemy soldiers, destroying 12 of their T34 tanks, and capturing a major airport, we were positioned to cut off the retreat of their 70,000 assault troops in the south, and move on to capture Seoul itself.
		The Marines who crushed the North Koreans at Inchon were also ambushed in the frozen wastes of Chosin where they won a series of savagely fought tactical victories amidst an overwhelming strategic defeat.
		The Naval logistics people for the Inchon invasion did an incredible job, as did the same folks in getting X Corps out of Hungnam on the other side of the peninsula later on.
	www.kmike.com /inchon.htm (2012 words)

	War in Korea Korean war order of battle
		United Nations troops landed at Inchon to only mild resistance and quickly moved to recapture Seoul.
		The battle of Chosin Reservoir in winter was a terrible defeat for the United Nations troops, who were mainly American Marines.
		The 1951 peace treaty returned Japanese sovereignty (excluding Okinawa and the Ryukyu islands) and the non-belligerency clause in the constitution was being considered a "mistake" by 1953.
	www.battle-fleet.com /pw/his/koreawar.htm (2705 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. veterans commemorate Korean War victory at Inchon - September 15, 2000
		INCHON, South Korea (AP) -- Schoolgirls danced and South Korean marines smashed tiles in a martial arts performance Friday for graying U.S. veterans gathered to commemorate the most famed allied victory during the 1950-53 Korean War.
		The Inchon amphibious landings, 50 years ago Friday, turned the war's course in favor of U.S.-led U.N. forces fighting communist invaders.
		Despite the allied forces' success at Inchon, the war eventually stalemated and an armistice was signed July 27, 1953.
	www.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/east/09/15/korea.inchon.ap (735 words)

	List of battles 1901-forward
		1937 Battle of Nanjing - early November to December 13 - Japanese victory after 2 months siege of the capital of Republic of China.
		1943 Battle of Osankarica[?] January 8 Over 200 Germans massacred all 69 men and women of the Pohorje battalion.
		1944 Battle of the Hurtgen Forest[?] Begins in October 6 – Volksturm[?] and German tank unit repulses 8 US infantry regiments and two armored divisions in a 6-month battle.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/li/List_of_battles_1901-forward.html (1625 words)

	Chemulpo
		Despite all the attention it has received from historians, the attack on Port Arthur was just a covering operation for the real target of Japan's opening move of the war, the invasion of Korea at Chemulpo.
		Uriu reasoned that if the Russians remained where they were, in the midst of the neutral ships, they could not possibly attack his transports and if they came out to do battle he had ample force to destroy them.
		That Varyag had been able to limp back to port with her slaughtered complement and shattered hull was a wonder.
	www.russojapanesewar.com /chemulpo.html (664 words)

	The Fighting Wantuck
		Off Green Beach, as Inchon burns beyond Wolmi Do Note the empty davits.
		Wantuck operated with 41 Royal Marine Commando in raids along the east coast.
		After my discharge I joined Philco Corporation as a Field Engineer for a few years before college, and they sent me back to Korea in 1952, where I was responsible for keeping our long-range air search radar working.
	www.kmike.com /wantuck1.htm (636 words)

	FM 3-06.11 Appendix H
		The battle of Inchon was the last significant urban engagement in which US forces fought a remotely comparable force in an urban environment.
		As battles wear on, the streets and building blocks of the urban physical morphology fragment urban warfare into conflict between units usually of squad or platoon size, with generally insufficient space for the deployment and maneuvering of larger units.
		During the battle of Grozny, for example, Russian commanders reportedly were unwilling to "waste" precious PGMs on the Chechen rebel forces.
	www.survivalprimer.com /COUTAH_Modern_Combata.htm (5920 words)

	An Overview of the U.S. Army in the Korean War, 1950-1953
		F4U's (Corsairs) returning from a combat mission over North Korea circle the USS Boxer (CV-21) as they wait for planes in the next strike to be launched from her flight deck.
		Enemy and allied leaders alike had doubted that a major amphibious operation could be successful at Inchon, where the high tide ranged between 23 and 35 feet.
		Following days of bombardment by carrier planes and shelling by cruisers, destroyers and other naval gunfire support ships, elements of the 5th Marines, part of X Corps, initiated the assault at 6:33 a.m., Sept. 15.
	korea50.army.mil /history/factsheets/navy.shtml (1555 words)

	U.S. Policy
		Thru the difficult battles and from what seemed like never-ending lines of DPRK forces, it was apparent that the allied forces needed to make an attempt to cut of the supply route that the DPRK forces were using.
		The island was quickly taken from the enemy due to their small numbers and dazed organization that was brought about from the bombing (see Battle of Inchon).
		Having Inchon as their supply route, the UN allies easily had the numbers, the firepower, and the military strategy to overpower the weakened DPRK forces.
	www.indiana.edu /~ealc100/Group16/E100/usstrategy.htm (1259 words)

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		a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between General Custer's cavalry and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command
	icosym-nt.cvut.cz /kifb/wordnet/_battle.html (2818 words)

	Inchon (1981) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		I wanted, honestly, to see a reverential treatment of the UN side of the Korean War, a war whose importance is now greatly underrecognized, and especially of one of the key battles in history.
		Soldiers taking Inchon fail to show fear -- and I can't imagine anyone going behind enemy lines not being scared out of his wits unless a psycho.
		Taking the lighthouse at Inchon, soldiers notice that the lighting and lens assembly was made in France (anyone who knows anything about lighthouses == and I live in a state that has lots of them -- knows that the lighthouse mechanisms and lenses from about a century ago all came from France).
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0084132 (593 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. veterans commemorate Korean War victory at Inchon - September 15, 2000
		INCHON, South Korea (AP) -- Schoolgirls danced and South Korean marines smashed tiles in a martial arts performance Friday for graying U.S. veterans gathered to commemorate the most famed allied victory during the 1950-53 Korean War.
		The Inchon amphibious landings, 50 years ago Friday, turned the war's course in favor of U.S.-led U.N. forces fighting communist invaders.
		Despite the allied forces' success at Inchon, the war eventually stalemated and an armistice was signed July 27, 1953.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/east/09/15/korea.inchon.ap (735 words)

	Eye-witness Attests to Important Role (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Expecting a short trip to carry supplies to the fighting men in Korea, Paul P. found himself in far Pacific waters equipped with little more than summer clothing in the way of personal gear, although his stay stretched into the months of bitter Korean cold.
		P., who participated in the invasion of Normandy in World War II, was again in an invasion of historic proportions when the U.S. unloaded men and battle equipment at Inchon (the seaport of Seoul) under 24-hour-a-day naval protective firing.
		Still further natural barriers greeted the ships there for Inchon is one of the most hazardous ports in the world, with a rise and fall in the tide of 33 feet, a zigzagging channel, and a rapid current of 4 knots.
	www.marad.dot.gov /Education/history/korea/EYEWITNE.html (462 words)

	Letter - Sitting Ducks Project
		The Navy Department has taken a stand that is insulting to the combat sailors who fought the North Koreans at the Battle of Inchon.
		These are but a few of the accolades to the six old destroyers who fought so valiantly at the Battle of Inchon in September 1950.
		The "Sitting Ducks" ship associations are urged to give this petition wide distribution to all their members and especially those members who served aboard the ship during the Battle of Inchon.
	web.meganet.net /kman/letter.htm (1316 words)

	Military.com Content
		The Inchon invasion was the last brilliant operation of Gen. MacArthur's career.
		While the bulk of the North Korean Army was kept occupied by Gen. Walton Walker's forces along the Pusan Perimeter, MacArthur planned an amphibious assault on Inchon that would trap the entire NKPA force in the South.
		The 70,000 strong X Corps was mobilized from scratch in lightning speed.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent1?file=segment_inchon (117 words)

	New York Day by Day - New York Times
		O n midtown streets, smooth-faced, well-shorn young men have been handing out fliers for the movie ''Inchon,'' which opened to reviews that were something on the order of awful.
		The Rev. Sun Myung Moon is a principal backer of ''Inchon'' and is its ''special adviser.'' Sidewalk activity has been especially heavy outside a center of his Unification Church at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue.
		In a full-page ad in yesterday's New York Times, he urged moviegoers to judge ''Inchon'' on its merits and not his involvement.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9401E5DC1F38F931A35753C1A964948260 (152 words)

	Encyclopedia
		Video 2:44 min - The battle of Inchon is over and Kim's troops have been defeated.
		Who is the best person to infiltrate Inchon?
		The battle of Inchon is over and Kim's troops have been defeated.
	history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..ku059300.a#FWNE.fw..k... (570 words)

	Military Factory - USN in Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		But those 600 enemy troops never landed: Enemy ships were sunk by American naval gunfire.
		The fleet's great mobility and control of the seas enabled General MacArthur and the U.N. Command to turn the tide of battle.
		Furthermore, two fortified islands blocked access to the port of Inchon.
	www.militaryfactory.com /battles/popup.asp?battle_id=23 (1441 words)

	AHC For Home and Country Virtual Exhibit
		Participating in the Inchon landings on September 15, 1950, the Marines proved that the doctrine of amphibious assault was still viable and necessary.
		The battle of Inchon completely broke the North Korean Army, which retreated northward with U.N. forces in pursuit.
		This was most notable during the brilliantly executed, carrier supported, Inchon amphibious assault that completely broke the North Korean army and, if not for Chinese intervention, might have ended the conflict.
	ahc.uwyo.edu /onlinecollections/exhibits/veterans/korea.htm (807 words)

	Rhubarb Preserve: September 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		He dug out the roots of American strength, committing U.S. forces to battle without plans to win or allies to share the burden and putting America on a path to lose the war on terror.
		Instead, Bush approved of a battle plan that put American troops on the sidelines of the most important American battle since Inchon.
		And in Iraq, he relied on Syria and Iran, both longtime enemies of America and sponsors of terrorism, to seal their borders and stop terrorists from infiltrating to attack American soldiers.
	www.madforjam.com /rhubarb/archives/2004_09.html (3283 words)

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