Religion In The Comics - 037

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4. "Night...off a North Korean shore!"

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Except nobody did an amphibious landing "off a North Korean shore" during the Korean War.

The only big amphibious landing in that war was at Inchon in Sept. 1950. That's in South Korea. Though I guess a Bigger Pedant could say Inchon was behind North Korean lines at the time...

But that landing was a total surprise to the North Koreans and resulted in very low American losses. It could have been a lot worse. Inchon has some of the most unpredictable tides in the world. The nightmare scenario was the landing craft going in at the wrong time, and getting hung up on sandbars and rocks. Which would have led to the massacre shown in the comic.

You want a miracle? Well, a negative miracle, I guess. One U.S. Marine unit's objective at Inchon was a beer factory. And the Marines stormed ashore, no doubt, with visions of many cold ones dancing in their heads.

When they reached the objective, they found that pre-invasion shelling and bombing had broken every bottle of beer in the place.

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