DEFENSES IN THE INCHON AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005900100005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 22, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Defenses in the Inchon Area
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as A company of North Korean troops in entrenchments along the seawall
of Inchon Tidal Basin.
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Troop locations in the on area on 13 September included:
b0 Three hundred North Korean troops in the Songdo area (126-28-30,
37-38'5)
e, There were 30 members of a political defense group at Kaekwan
Temple in Sinhwangdong (126'38=10, 37?27?30), Inchon,
c0 Three hundred North Korean troops at Tosan Mountain (126-38-20,
372730), On 8 September, 250 of these troops arrived in Tosan,
d0 The troops previously reported in the vicinity of Puchon district
office, with the exception of guerrilla troops have moved to
Sudokuksan (126.38'20, 37??28?20), where there is a water reserv ir0
Some troops may have gone to Tosan,
There were 120-mom, artillery pieces and 40 heavy machine gun emplac
ments around an orphanage in the vicinity of the Suin railroad at
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ng envy casualties. Woad-do defenses were disrupted by the
bombing; the garrison fled, leaving the guns unmanned. I
During the saturation bombing of Wolmi-do on 12 September., one of th$
first bombs struck the mess hall where the garrison was eating,
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The coastal road from Inchon south to 126'39-40, 37-23-55 is a single-
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unimproved road leading northeast from Naedong (12643,9 3723) is the same
type. Inchon City streets can carry any type of vehicle,, including heavy
tanks. The bridges and culverts of the main cross-country roads will
carry two-and-one-halves,, but .t is doubtful if they -would hold tanks,
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