View looking Seaward

Minesweepers Sinking at Wonson Harbor

1. View looking Seaward

Wonson had much work done to defend it but at the time of our landing the North Korean Army was in full retreat and the Chinese had not yet appeared. There was almost no defense offered to the invasion. We did have one prisoner. He seemed quite young and frightened. My company spent some cold nights in an gymnasium of a school. It had been festooned with Communist flags.

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