Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM
Location: Korea
Period/ Conflict: Korean War
Year: 1950
Date/s: October 1950
125 men and five officers of C & D Troops, under command Of the 2i/c, Major D L St. M Aldridge, embarked in the Assault Personnel Destroyers USS BASS and WANTUCK (1400 tons).
Each carried four Landing Craft and had accommodation for 162 in the troop space.
This force made two separate raids also against the East Coast railway on 5 & 6 October 1950. The Assault Engineers laid two tons of charges on each raid under culverts and bridges and in tunnels.
A Korean railway guard was killed and so, sadly, was a Royal Marines Corporal whilst leaving the beach on the second raid.
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