JINSEN, Korea

An ADAIR APA-91  World War Two stopping point
Adair dropped off her passengers at Eniwetok on 5 September and continued on to the Philippines. She made stops at Tacloban, Guiuan, and at Panay Island before clearing the archipelago on 14 September with occupation troops embarked for Korea. She returned to the Philippines late in September and loaded additional occupation troops.  After carrying those men to Jinsen, Korea, early in October, she shaped a course for Okinawa on the 16th. 
 JINSEN LIBERTY PHOTOS
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This is where Linn Sheckler Jr. remembers that a work crew was on shore and U.S. guys stationed there offered them swords and other types of souviners, Adair's commander would not allow it. Adair's crew were not very happy.
Occupation and Surrender of Southern Korea
The U.S. Navy put Army ground forces ashore in Korea on 8 September 1945, at a location that would become World-famous in another five years as the scene of the Inchon Invasion. The following day, 9 September, Japanese forces in the southern part of Korea surrendered in ceremonies held in Seoul. That marked the end of three and a half decades of Japanese rule in Korea. The peninsula north of the thirty-eighth parallel was already in Soviet hands.

Harbor of Jinsen (Inchon), Korea, photographed from a USS Intrepid (CV-11) aircraft, as Allied forces land there to begin the occupation of southern Korea, 8 September 1945.
Wolmi-Do island is in the lower right, below the airplane wing, with a causeway connecting it to Inchon city.
A U.S. Navy submarine chaser (PC) is the larger vessel in the upper center. Landing craft are maneuvering nearby.

Landing craft move in and out of of Jinsen (Inchon) harbor, Korea, as Allied forces land there, 8 September 1945.
Wolmi-Do island is in the upper left, with a causeway connecting it to Inchon city.
Photographed from a USS Intrepid (CV-11) aircraft.










Korea POW Camps

To relate travel time see: LST 794
12 September, 1945 -- Embarked personnel and equipment of 241st Replacement Co., 24th Army Corps, Co.A., 3rd Signal Ban., "D" Co.,472nd Amph. Truck Co., 29th General Hosp -- all U.S.Army -- for transportation to Jinsen, Korea. 

13 September, 1945 -- Departed Hagushi Anchorage~ Okinawa, in convoy, escorted, enroute to Jinsen, Korea. OTC in LC(FF) 575. 

17 September, 1945 -- Arrived Jinsen, Korea. 

18 September, 1945 -- Disembarked passengers and unloaded cargo. 

23 September, 1945 -- Departed Jinsen, Korea, in convoy, escorted, enroute to Okinawa. OTC in DE 704. 

27 September, 1945 -- Arrived Okinawa. 

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