Upon landing on the beach I was ordered to replace the lieutenant of the 1st Platoon which, by now, consisted of two squads and a corpsman.
In the attack against A Company, the North Koreans hit the 1st Platoon, which was near Agok, but they did not find the 2nd Platoon northward.
The only heavy weapons in the parachute battalion were in the 3-inch Mortar platoon and the Vickers machine gun platoon which were part of the battalion headquarters.
The first probes began at 21 30, targeting 1 Platoon which was the lowest of the three platoons on the west flank.
In Berlin, on Saturday, while promoting his new movie The Monuments Men – based on the second world war platoon which rescued and returned thousands of artworks stolen by the Nazis – Clooney said it would be "very nice" if the marbles went back to Greece.
While some North Korean units peeled off to attack G Company, others continued on and engaged E Company, 2 mile downstream from it, and still others attacked scattered units of F Company all the way to its 1st Platoon, which guarded the Namji-ri bridge.
The plan went awry when the 2nd Platoon got lost and missed a rendezvous with the 1st and 3rd Platoon, which were waiting for them near Mravince.
The site was apparently left unsecured, however, and by the time Sergeant Foster's platoon, which has expertise in dealing with chemical weapons, arrived in the evening, he said, the containers had been looted.
I also made a couple close friends from within my platoon, which helped the time pass.
