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28 Marines Lost In
2d Largest Korean
Naval Disaster
INCHON, Korea, l/Pt—'Twenty
e-ight U.S. Marines were dead or
missing Thursday after a troop
ship loaded with Chinese war
prisoners collided with and cap
sized a small landing craft.
The toll was surpassed by that
of only one Other naval disaster
in the Korean theater.
Maj. Gen. William S. Lawton,
commanding general of the Kor
ean communication zone, said 22
survivors—3rd Division Marines
and crewmen—were rescued from
the chill waters of Inchon Harbor
minutes after 'the collision be
tween a big Formosa-bound LST
(landing ship, tank) and an LCM
(landing carft, medium). They
were not seriously hurt. The Mar
ines were weighted down with
heavy equipment.
Six bodies were recovered and
22 others were presumed dead
when the search was called off at
dusk. The small ship had carried
50 men, Lawton said.
The Marine helmsman of the
LCM, Pfc. John D. Gates Jr., 22,
Pensacola, Fla., said he was ap
proaching the LST to put a Marine
guard aboard before the ship
sailed for Formosa. The LST car
ried 1,000 Chinese POWs returned
to U.N. custody by Indian custo
dian troops in the Korean neutral
zone.
Gates, formerly a commercial
fisherman added:
“The current was against my
boat. It forced me against the
LST. It was so strong it capsized
my boat before I could move.”
Gates said he thought the LST
was standing at anchor. The log
of the nearby Army transport
Pope recorded the LST as being
underway.
The LST left for Fonnosa as
scheduled.
The death toll was surpassed
only by the 30 killed in a turret
explosion aboard the cruiser St.
Paul off eastern Korea on April
21, 1952.
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