Secrets of Inchon : The Untold Story of the Most Daring Covert Mission of the Korean War

by Clark, Eugene Franklin; Fleming, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780399148712
• ISBN10: 039914871X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-13
• Publisher: Putnam Adult

Summary

The Secrets of Inchon is a story of heroism and courage, only now come to light after fifty years: the true account of Navy Commander (then Lieutenant) Eugene Franklin Clark - a man, according to his colleagues, with "the nerves of a burglar and the flair of a Barbary Coast pirate" - and the daring covert mission that helped change the course of the Korean War.
In the year 2000, historian Thomas Fleming published an article about a crucial but little-known mission of the Korean War, led by a thirty-nine-year-old Navy lieutenant named Eugene Clark. After it appeared, Clark's widow told Fleming that her husband had written up his own account, which was now in a safe-deposit box. Would he like to read it? Fleming would - and when he did, he discovered an extraordinary document: a vividly written first-person chronicle, filled with color, detail, and event, as honest and revealing a wartime narrative as he'd read in many years.

Author Biography

Eugene Clark served in the Navy during World War II, and after the war, among other assignments, was attached to General Douglas MacArthur's G-2 (intelligence) staff in Tokyo. He was there when the Korean War began, and was approached for the Inchon mission. For his role in the invasion, he won the Silver Star, and the Far Eastern Command added the Legion of Merit for "exceptionally meritorious conduct." Later missions resulted in an Oak Leaf Cluster and the Navy Cross. Clark died in 1998, after retiring from the Navy in 1966 with the rank of commander Thomas Fleming is the author of forty books. he lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Groundwork
Prelude to the Rumble	p. 3
Into Red Inchon Harbor	p. 17
An Island of Loyalty	p. 35
Intrigue	p. 59
The Junk Fleet	p. 81
Exploratory Operations	p. 109
The Rumble Turns Hot
Taemuui-Do Raid	p. 139
Red Pests	p. 175
Battle of the Junks	p. 203
Mud, Mud, and Mord Mud	p. 233
Spotter's Paradise	p. 261
Yonghung-Do's Last Stand	p. 291
Epilogue	p. 321
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