United States Navy Chaplain Corps - Yearbook

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CHAPTER 3 COMMUNIST CHINESE AGGRESSION 3 November 1950-24 January 1951 Within 3 months after the North Korean Army in- vaded South Korea, it had been decisively defeated. The tide which had carried the victorious Communists over all of South Korea except the small area behind the Pusan Perimeter had been turned. By the com- pletion of the Inchon-Seoul operation, that part of the North Korean Army not killed or Captured was broken into many small units, each trying to get back across the 38th Parallel the best way possible, or else remain- ing in hiding in the South Korean hills. General MacArthur called upon the North Korean leaders to surrender, his demand was ignored. The United Nations Command then decided to send its forces across the 38th Parallel, allowing for the possi- bility but not expecting that this in turn would call the Chinese Communists into the struggle? On 7 October 1950 the Marines in the vicinity of Seoul were relieved and ordered to Inchon, where they embarked on 12 October for Wonsan on the east coast. There they disembarked on 25 October, after delays necessitated by hazardous and prolonged minesweeping opera- tions. During the time at sea, the chaplains of the lst Division were busy writing letters of condolence to the next-of-kin of deceased Marine personnel. Most of the chaplains had Completed this duty by the time the transports reached Wonsan. The processing of these 1Montross and Canzona, op. nit., vol. III, The Chosin Reservoir Campaign fwashington, 19575, ch. 1. See also: Cagle and Manson, op. eit., ch. 4. Karig et al., op. sit., chs. 22-36. Holy Communion at Sea. Communion is held aboard the BAYFIELD for United Nations troops enroute to the Wonsan invasion by Chaplain Edgar A. Day. --0-'KN KQQ...

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