The 15 September 1950 UN amphibious landing that cut KPA supply to the Pusan Perimeter and retook Seoul -- a tide-table gamble, not the end of the Korean War. Operation Chromite put X Corps ashore at Inchon on 15 September 1950, far behind the Korean People's Army fighting on the Pusan Perimeter.
Wolmi-do fell in the morning; the evening tide put Marines and soldiers onto the city. Kimpo airfield and the Han crossings opened the fight for Seoul, declared recaptured on 28 September. UN and ROK dead in the Inchon-Seoul operation are usually given in the hundreds; KPA losses in dead and captured were much higher. The landing wrecked KPA logistics in the south.
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The 15 September 1950 UN amphibious landing that cut KPA supply to the Pusan Perimeter and retook Seoul -- a tide-table gamble, not the end of the Korean War. Operation Chromite put X Corps ashore at Inchon on 15 September 1950, far behind the Korean People's Army fighting on the Pusan Perimeter.
Wolmi-do fell in the morning; the evening tide put Marines and soldiers onto the city. Kimpo airfield and the Han crossings opened the fight for Seoul, declared recaptured on 28 September. UN and ROK dead in the Inchon-Seoul operation are usually given in the hundreds; KPA losses in dead and captured were much higher. The landing wrecked KPA logistics in the south.
Chromite did not end the war. The UN drive across the 38th parallel and toward the Yalu invited Chinese intervention. For Korean readers this is a national-capital story as much as a MacArthur story: Seoul's second liberation in three months, and a reminder that operational brilliance can widen a war.
A landing at Kunsan or closer to Pusan would have been orthodox. Inchon promised to cut the Seoul-Pusan axis and collapse the KPA from the rear. The price was hydrography. Naval gunfire and carrier air prepared Wolmi-do. Marines climbed seawalls. The city fight was short compared with Seoul's street week.
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