 Finally, on 7 August, they took up station off the Korean coast.Initially, they delivered gunfire to relieve the pressure upon the northeastern end of the Pusan perimeter.During her first assignment, "Theodore E. Chandler" steamed to Yongdok to bombard supply lines running south along the coast, bypassing the ROK 3rd Division isolated at Chongha, and on toward Pohang where UN lines ended at the Sea of Japan.