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	Wonsan to Chosin
		Not a shot was fired to oppose the landing of the 1st Mar Div from 25 to 27 October at the leading seaport of Northeast Korea.
		A three-pronged advance was envisioned by X Corps planners in their zone-the 1st Mar Div on the left, the 7th Inf Div in the center, I ROK Corps (3d and Capital Divs) on the right, and the 3d Inf Div in reserve.
		A G-2 report of 21 October concluded that routed NK remnants planned either to withdraw from the Wonsan area to Manchuria, or to attempt a last stand in the mountains of northern Korea.
	myspecialinterests.net /usmc/korea/gazette/wonsan.htm (7051 words)

	Wonsan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Today, Wonsan is a comprehensive harbor industrial city, it is also the administrative centre of Kangwon Province.
		Wonsan is considered an excellent natural port location.
		Wonsan is home to Songdowon University, Kumgang University, Tonghae University, Wonsan University of Medicine, Wonsan First University of Education and Ri Su Dok University.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wonsan (318 words)

	USAF Historical Study No. 71 - USAF Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Wonsan had thus fallen well before the X Corps D-day and before the D minus 5 establishment of an amphibious area around the city as provided by General MacArthur's operations orders.
		On 11 October, however, General MacArthur announced that Wonsan airfield would be used for land-based aircraft under the control of the X Corps Tactical Air Commander, effective as soon as elements of X Corps reached the objective area.
		He asked whether GHQ intended to pass control of the Marine air units at Wonsan to FEAF under the coordination control directive, or whether two separate land based tactical air elements were to operate in the restricted area of North Korea under separate air control and different command arrangements.
	www.wpafb.af.mil /cgi-bin/quiz.pl/history/korea/no71-86.htm (799 words)

	Korean War--The Wonsan Operation, October 1950
		Wonsan would also provide UN forces with another logistics support seaport, one closer to the battlefronts than Pusan and with greater handling capacity than tide-encumbered Inchon.
		Wonsan's greatest value, though, was unintended: it gave the U.S. Navy a painfully valuable reminder of the fruits of neglecting mine countermeasures, that unglamorous side of maritime power that, when it is needed, is needed very badly.
		Amphibious shipping anchored in Wonsan's outer harbor during the landing of the First Marine Division, 26 October 1950.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/kowar/50-unof/wonsan.htm (1027 words)

	Korean War--Wonsan Mine Clearance, October-November 1950
		However, much worse was to come as the small available minesweeping force began to clear Wonsan's approaches in preparation for the forthcoming landings.
		Mines were expected off Wonsan, and clearance operations began on 10 October, ten days before the planned amphibious assault.
		The Wonsan lesson, received at the hands of a minor power using relatively inexpensive means, were taken to heart by contemporary Navy policy makers.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/kowar/50-unof/wonsn-2.htm (969 words)

	Special Operations.Com
		The Wonsan lesson, received at the hands of a minor power using relatively inexpensive means, were taken to heart by contemporary Navy policy makers.
		Underwater Demolition Team "Frogmen" swim ashore from a LCVP in Wonsan harbor, while on a mission to destroy a North Korean minefield, 26 October 1950.
		Underwater Demolition Team personnel paddle ashore at Wonsan, while on a mission to destroy a North Korean minefield, 26 October 1950.
	www.specialoperations.com /History/Korea/Wonson (693 words)

	Red Cross Red Crescent - News archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Wonsan, on North Korea's eastern coast, is one of the country's three largest ports.
		A city of 350,000 inhabitants, Wonsan is attractively spread out along the bay that shelters the harbour.
		Wonsan is an industrial city with little or no food production within the city limits.
	www.ifrc.org /docs/news/97/97082502 (315 words)

	Map of Wonsan Harbor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The beaches around Wonsan have a moderate gradient, and the floor at the water's edge consist of hard-packed sand.
		The transports at Inchon to transport the Marines to Wonsan ran behind schedule with the result that the D-Day landing at Wonsan got moved back to a 20 Oct. date.
		The landing at Wonsan became delayed due to mines in the harbor.
	www.paulnoll.com /Korea/Smith/Smith-map-Wonsan-harbor.html (415 words)

	Wonsan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The next objective was Wonsan on the east coast north of the 38th Parallel.
		The night of 27 October the 1st Battalion was hit by a still-in tact NKPA regiment and took heavy casualties in a fight that went on until mid-morning on the twenty-eighth.
		A sister unit, the 3d Battalion, 1st Marines, had been sent twenty-six road miles west of Wonsan on 28 October to secure the mountain town of Majon-ni, important because it was where the cross-peninsula roads from Seoul, Pyongyang, and Wonsan came together.
	www.1stmarinedivisionassociation.org /korean-battles/wonsan.htm (442 words)

	US Naval Ships Sunk In Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		USS Ozborn (DD-846) damaged after being hit by a shore battery at Wonsan, North Korea, 2 casualties, 23 December 1950.
		USS Everett (PF-8) minor damage after being hit by a shore battery at Wonsan, North Korea, 8 casualties, 3 July 1951.
		USS Samuel N. Moore (DD-747) superficial damage from 1 hit from a shore battery at Wonsan, North Korea.
	www.korean-war.com /USNavy/usnavyshipssunk.html (2247 words)

	Operation Crippled Chick: ACB 1 Builds Emergency Airstrip Behind Enemy Lines
		Inchon and Wonsan were evacuated and Seoul fell on January 4, 1951.
		In the sixteen months since the evacuation of Wonsan and Hungnam, the Navy waged a campaign of destruction along the northeast coast of North Korea.
		The remaining factor cannot be measured, which can be called the "comfort factor." As pilots circled over their targets, they knew that all they had to do was fly a few miles to safety if their aircraft was crippled by antiaircraft fire or ran low on fuel.
	www.seabeecook.com /history/Korea/crippled_chick.htm (1990 words)

	Wonsan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The next objective was Wonsan on the east coast north of the 38th Parallel.
		The night of 27 October the 1st Battalion was hit by a still-in tact NKPA regiment and took heavy casualties in a fight that went on until mid-morning on the twenty-eighth.
		A sister unit, the 3d Battalion, 1st Marines, had been sent twenty-six road miles west of Wonsan on 28 October to secure the mountain town of Majon-ni, important because it was where the cross-peninsula roads from Seoul, Pyongyang, and Wonsan came together.
	1stbattalion3rdmarines.com /korean-battles/wonsan.htm (442 words)

	Korean War--Wonsan Landing Force, Loading and at Sea, October 1950
		The rest of the Seventh Division was to embark at Pusan, moving south along combat-damaged routes that were also heavily used by north-bound military traffic.
		However, the mine clearance situation and the fact that Wonsan, already occupied by South Korean troops, was no longer an assault target, dictated the postponement of the landings.
		En route to the Wonsan invasion area, 26 October 1950.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/kowar/50-unof/wonsn-4.htm (754 words)

	Cholwon(South Korea) and Wonsan(North Korea) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Wonsan is a harbor city on the East Sea while Cholwon is located in the inner-land area.
		In Wonsan, April, all the plain fields and some part of the mountains show pinkish purple and it suggests that the mountains around Wonsan have the weak density of the vegetation comparing with Cholwon area, and the plain field was not cultivated during the winter season.
		The consequent figures are for Cholwon of spring, for Wonsan of spring, for Cholwon of autumn, and for Wonsan of autumn.
	earth.cnu.ac.kr /geo/RESERCH/remotesensing/wonc9805.htm (6002 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Assessment of winter needs in nurseries and kindergartens of Wonsan and ...
		All the visits in the nurseries started with meeting and interviewing the director of the institution and the representatives of local FDRC (a semi-structured interview scheme was applied and is attached in annex A).
		Wonsan Baby Home (9.75 MT rice, 0.585 MT soya beans, 3 MT milk powder, 0.585 soya bean oil, 0.6 MT sugar, 18 water tanks of 50 lit capacity each, 10 kg chlorine tablets, 40 lit detergent, 93 kg body soap and 211 lit laundry soap.
		Wonsan Orphanage (19.5 MT rice, 1.17 MT soya bean and soya bean oil, 6 MT milk powder, 1.2 MT sugar, 26 water tanks, 14 kg chlorine tablets, 50 lit detergent, 203 kg body soap and 421 kg laundry soap.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/7958807f7a4ca36e85256c2b00728394 (3511 words)

	Korean War Educator: Memoirs - Jake Huffaker
		Being the “Mayor of Wonsan,” a person was given the task of covering destroyers and destroyer escorts, supervising mine-sweepers and working closely with naval personnel, Marines and Koreans on friendly islands.
		This was an approach to the main Wonsan harbor where the Communists had guns along three sides, also was dangerous from drifting mines and planted moared mines as well.
		Their first and biggest day in Wonsan was the night of May 20 and 21 when “Operation Fireball” was completed.
	koreanwar-educator.org /memoirs/huffaker (4892 words)

	Korean War Educator: Branch Accounts - Marines - Wonsan to the Reservoir
		On 14 October the first elements of VMF-312 were flown to Wonsan from Japan to provide the rare spectacle of Marine airmen making themselves at home in the objective area before the appearance of the landing force.
		Korean telephone communication linked the battalion to the regiment at Wonsan until radio contact was established next day, and a battery of artillery was scheduled to arrive at Kojo that night.
		The men had been issued winter clothing at Wonsan which was appreciated during the 20-mile motor lift from Hamhung to the Majon-dong area on 1 November.
	www.koreanwar-educator.org /topics/branch_accounts/marine/p_wonsan_to_the_reservoir.htm (6557 words)

	Infantry Magazine: The X Corps Evacuation Of The Wonsan Beachhead - Korean War
		On 4 December, however--faced with MacArthur's growing pessimism and strong objection to their position--the Joint Chiefs acquiesced and directed MacArthur to preserve his forces by ignoring the region northeast of the waist of Korea, except for strategic and tactical considerations relating to the security of his command.
		In the end, the decision to evacuate the Wonsan beachhead may have resulted more from MacArthur's pessimistic appraisal of the situation, and from political realities, than from an untenable tactical situation.
		On 29 November MacArthur notified the JCS of his plans to withdraw the Eighth Army as far as necessary to prevent its envelopment by the Chinese.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0IAV/is_1_90/ai_70777162 (1343 words)

	James Edwin Alexander. Inchon to Wonsan: From the Deck of a Des... - Memoir-Biography.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Inchon to Wonsan: From the Deck of a Des...
		Inchon to Wonsan: From the Deck of a Destroyer in the Korean War
		To a Coastie of the 90's this brought the "Forgotten War" of the sailor of the 50's to life.
	memoir-biography.com /military/081/james-edwin-alexander-inchon-to-wonsan-from-the-deck-of-a-destroyer-in-.htm (343 words)

	Burl Gilliland The Shore Batteries at Wonsan
		On one occasion we were sweeping close in to the inner harbor at Wonsan.
		All the minesweepers in the line cut their cables to their minesweep gear, left all gear in the brink, and retreated, in previously swept waters, as fast as our engines could carry us.
		The shore battery shelling occurred a few miles further in Wonsan harbor from where four other minesweepers had, a few months prior, been sunk by enemy mines.
	www.kilroywashere.org /003-Pages/Burl/Burl-ShoreBatteries.html (1146 words)

	U.S. Navy Battleships - USS New Jersey (BB 62) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It was on this first such mission at Wonsan that she received her only combat casualties of the Korean War.
		One of her men was killed and two severely wounded when she took a hit from a shore battery on her number one turret and received a near miss aft to port.
		The battleship was under fire at Wonsan 27-29 May, but her five- inch guns silenced the counter-fire, and her 16-inch shells destroyed five gun emplacements and four gun caves.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/battleships/newjersey/bb62-nj.html (4566 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » DPR Korea: Floods emergency appeal No. 34/2001
		A combination of heavy rain, strong winds and sea surges on October 9-10, led to the flooding in two cities and eight counties along DPR Korea's eastern coast.
		Wonsan city, the provincial capital of Kangwon province saw as much as 450 mm of rainfall in one day.
		On October 12 several relief items were released from the DPRK Red Cross regional warehouse in Wonsan City and distributed to 1,200 of the worst affected families.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/9eb090db95a4f4f8c1256ae70049c30f (2607 words)

	AllRefer.com - Wonsan, Korea (Korean Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Oil refining, rice processing, and the manufacture of locomotives, textiles, ships, chemicals, and leather goods are also important.
		Opened to foreign trade in 1883, Wonsan became a Japanese naval base in World War II.
		It suffered heavy damage during the Korean War.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wonsan.html (176 words)

	Wonsan - Current News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The three Korean naval ships, the Wonsan, Hwacheon and Yangmanchun, made their first stop in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in early October.
		Moreover, old rail links are soon to be revived between Seoul and Sinuiju in North Korea, along with a road between Yangyang in the South and Wonsan in the...
		Recommended for a commendation for his actions at Wonsan Harbor in Korea, where he circled over a downed pilot until a rescue chopper arrived, Barteluce...
	news.daylightonline.com /2003/Wonsan.html (253 words)

	New Page 1
		The US spy ship was captured on January 23, 1968 near Wonsan and was moved to the present location about two years ago.
		Senior Col. Kim told me that Pueblo was moved from Wonsan to Daedong-gan through international waters off Cheju-do and Japan, It took the Americans three days to learn of the move.
		After North Korea captured Pueble and towed her to Wonsan, the US sent a naval task force led by the aircraft carrier Enterprise and threatened military actions against North Korea.
	www.kimsoft.com /2001/pueblo.htm (896 words)

	WONSAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At the coast 3 km northwest of Wonsan city is Songdowon.
		Near Wonsan is the Kalma Peninsula with the 4 km long Myongsasimni Beach.
		Lake Sijung is 48 km from Wonsan and 60 km from Kumgangsan.
	www.vnc.nl /korea/won-ss.htm (326 words)

	math lessons - Wonsan
		Nowadays, Wonsan is a comprehensive harbor industrial city, it is the administrative centre of Kangwon Province too.
		Wonsan has a military and civilian dual purposes air station(WON), is equipped with 01/19 and 15,/33 dual runways.
		Wonsan has aquatic product processing factory, shipyard, chemistry enterprise and the cement factory.
	www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Wonsan (242 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Death Cave at Wonsan -- Oct. 23, 1950 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Han Jun Myung, 44, is a minister of the Jesus Church of Korea in Wonsan.
		A few days after the war began, he suggested in a sermon that the problem of unifying Korea should be turned over to the U.N. Three days later Han was thrown into a Wonsan prison along with 500 other political suspects.
		Early one morning last week, as the Communists were being driven out of Wonsan by South Korean troops, Han Jun Myung and about 300 other prisoners were called out of their cells, marched up a nearby hill and pushed into a large cave.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,813588,00.html (416 words)

	Part 24: Korean Tales, Unsung Heroes of the Korean Air War - Korean War Project
		The landing at Wonsan was scheduled for October 20th, 1950.
		Besides, he reminded, an airborne invasion was planned to leapfrog the massed defenders south of Pyongyang (near Sariwon), and it was felt that the paratroops of the 101st Airborne could keep the Reds off balance for sufficient time for Almond to make his sea voyage.
		Wonsan was caaptured, instead, by a ground-based force of Republic of Korea (ROK) troops who had raced north up the coastal highway along the east coast.
	www.koreanwar.org /html/units/frontline/biteman/biteman24.htm (2053 words)

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