. >> 20 september, 1950, marines had fought five days and 30 miles from inchon. on the other side, the capital city of seoul where 20,000 communist north koreans were dug in. >> we were on the han river overlooking seoul. >> when you get to the han river, tell me what you see. >> devastation because there had been one bridge across the han, a high metal bridge. when they evacuated seoul, they had blown the bridge. >> to take seoul, the strategy was gutsy, send the fifth marines north, through the senter and 32nd infantry to the south. >> 21st of september, we crossed higgins again. >> my organization went across. i thought i was going to die. it was the first time i had been in an amtrak. they buttoned the thing up. fumes made everybody sick. we were glad to get to the other side to get out. >> larry knew the feeling all too well. his infantry crossed the han. >> it always stalled in the middle of the water. we could hear them firing on us. seemed like 20 minutes but probably was 20 seconds. you could hear a pin drop inside that thing. nobod wanted totalk. >> we

in this photograph he leads men up over the inchon sea wall.hort time later, he was killed in action. he was given awarded the medal of honor. >> how high does the tide go up here? >> translator: it was over eight meters. >> how did you climb up the sea wall? >> translator: like a cat climbing up the wall. >> they came up over the sea wall. it was just getting dusk. all we could see was fire from the hills. >> we had a sand pile. it was soft. the tide was not high enough actually. we were in waist deep water and mud. >> they were shooting at us. our ships were shooting back at them. a lot of tracers. hectic, chaotic. particularly when you wanted to get off the ship and get in the dirt. >> by evening of the 15th, marines landed and dug in. 20 were killed and 174 wounded. the enemy was taken completely by surprise. mcarthur declared navy and marines have never shown more brightly. >> our orders were set is up for the night, get ready for attack tomorrow morning. >> in case we got hit the next morning, which we did. >> with 30,000 north korean tro