Our army company - 581 Radio Relay Co. from Camp Gordon, GA. - arrived in Yokohama, Japan, in August 1950. After one week, one team (14 enlisted men and one officer) of which I was a member was immediately assigned to a naval communication ship USS El Dorado in Tokyo. All of our communication equipment was loaded aboard ship. The purpose of this detached service to the Navy, as it turned out, was to provide ship-to-shore communication with a marine company that was to go ashore during the invasion of Inchon. They had compatible equipment the ship did not have.

The ship turned out to be the flagship for the invasion, with General Douglas MacArthur on board. Following the successful invasion, we were transferred to the El Dorado's sister ship USS Mount McKinley and later onto the battleship USS Missouri for a possible second invasion on the east coast of Korea at Wonson. Because of the rapid success of the South Korean forces moving north along the east coast, this second invasion wasn't needed. We were put ashore at Wonson harbor, made our way to Hamhung, South Korea, and set up a radio relay station in a former S. Korean radio station building. Some time later we rejoined our company and eventually wound up in Hungnam, North Korea.