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A cruiser-destroyer force threaded its way up the cured in thirty-one minutes. Sowolmido followed
Flying Fish Charmel on 13 September to bombard the quickly, thanks to 40-mm fire from one of the support
North Korean fortifications on the islands of Wolmi-do ships. The main landing followed in the late afternoon.
and Sowolmi-do, which protected the harbor and city. Red Beach was in downtown Inchon, the only place
There was a spirited exchange of fire during which three heavy equipment such as tanks, bulldozers, and trucks
destroyers were hit, but the shore and air bombardment could be landed. Blue Beach was on the southern out-
on 13-14 September was sufficient to enable the landing skirts of the city on a muddy, narrow beach too soft to
to proceed on schedule the following morning. take heavy equipment.
At 0630 on the fifteenth, the first waves stormed At 1730 the first wave hit Red Beach. Not until the
ashore at Green Beach on Wolmi-do. The island was se- fourth wave landed did the defenders commence any

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The Korean theater of operations, 1950. The North Korean invasion of South Korea began on 25 June 1950.