Our four APD's constituted TD-111 which, as Navy Special Operations put it, "provided the operational catalyst for the multinational raiding force that repeatedly struck North Korea's railway system".

• WANTUCK AT INCHON
  • 5th Marines, including units carried by Wantuck, initiated the Inchon invasion.
    • Wantuck's LCVPs circle off Wolmi-Do before assault at Green Beach
  • Brief history of APD 125 Wantuck
  • Wantuck won one WWII Battle Star
  • Wantuck won the Navy Efficiency citation in 1950
  • Korean War Prelude: Sub(?) Attack
    
  • Wantuck won five Korean War Battle Stars
    
  • Wantuck won the Korean Presidential Unit Citation
    

• MINECLEARING OPERATIONS
  • Photo of Korean Minesweeper blowing up in Wonsan Harbor
  • 3,000 mines had been laid under supervision of Russian experts
  • Wantuck carried UDT1 in helping mine-clearing operations
  • Wantuck also operated in mined areas while on Commando raids
  • Navy Mine Sweeping: Chinnampo
    

• BEGOR AT HUNGNAM
  • Photo of Begor as beach supplies and facilities are detonated
  • Photo linked to brief history of APD 127 Begor

• INTERLUDE
  • Photo of Wantuck while Station Ship Hong Kong, between wars

• Other APDs in the Korean War
  • USS Horace A. Bass, APD 124
    • Our squadron's most decorated ship
  • USS Diachenko, APD 123
    • Crew member witnesses sinkings of two US Mine Sweepers
    • Crew member, 12/25/50, Hungnam Evacuation description
  • USS Weiss, APD 135

• 41 Independent Commando Royal Marines
  • History of British Commando Operations During Korean War

• AT THE HAN
  • Photos, personal links, of ex-Wantuck crewman Bert Kortegaard

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