CARRIERS WITH TASK FORCE 77
KOREAN CONFLICT
USS Essex CV 9 USS Yorktown CV 10 USS Boxer CV 21 USS Bataan CVL 29
USS Bon Homme Richard CV 31 USS Kearsarge CV 33 USS Princton CV 37
USS Coral Sea CV 43 USS Valley Forge CV 45 USS Philippine Sea CV 47
USS Siapan CVL 48 USS Leyte CV 32

"The results achieved by the Evans and the Blue, using this shore fire control party, were extremely good. As I recall, they fired at a torpedo station and supply buildings in Wonsan. The team stayed on the island for three or four days and I brought them out. From time to time, other ships' teams took their place. The ships' interdiction and bombardment fire was materially improved."

This employment became more frequent with many other siege ships landing their own SFCPs on Hwangto-do. A small party of U. S. Marines was posted to Hwangto-do on 19 July 1951, and remained there for the rest of the siege, the personnel being rotated every four months.*

The island of Hwangto-do was successfully raided by Communist sampans on the night of 28-24 November 1951. All of the ten houses were burned by the raiders, seven Korean Marines and one civilian killed, and five civilians captured.

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