Sea Landing
You Canât Get There from Here: The Inchon Story I
General MacArthur watching the Inchon Landing September 1950. âWhen Inchonâs tides were at full ebb, the mud banks that had accumulated over the centuries from the Yellow Sea jutted from the shore in some places as far as two miles out into the harbor, and during ebb and flow these tides raced through âFlying Fish Channel,â the best approach to…
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Inchon Landings
With Vought F4U-4S providing air support, the commander in chief of United Nations forces in Korea watches his troops land behind the bulk of the North Korean army, in Douglas MacArthur at Inchon, by Mike Gnatek. Members of the 5th Marine Regiment climb out of their landing craft and onto…
Caesarâs Invasion of Britain
The approximate number of boats in the fleet that carried the invading Roman army to Britain in 54 BCE. Of these, 28 were dedicated warships and most of the rest were troop transports. They used for troop transports both Standard warships and merchant ships, likely more merchants (when itâs not…
The Second Anglo-Dutch War 1665â1667 â Dutch Raid up the Medway
De Hollanders steken Engelse schepen in brand tijdens de tocht naar Chatham, 20 juni 1667 A royal humiliation. When the bankrupt Stuart administration could not afford to fit out the battle fleet in 1667, expecting peace, the Dutch penetrated the difficult Medway navigation in mid-June and, despite the best efforts…
Landing Ship, Tank Mk 3Â (LST(3))
USS LST-742 on 13 October 1950 at Wolmi-do Island, Inchon Harbor, loading supplies for the upcoming Wonsan invasion. So well did the LST(2) suit the needs of the Americans that the UK had difficulty in being allocated suitable numbers from the construction programme that it had itself initiated. Eighty were…