The ship ran aground under heavy enemy fire. The students had to swim through freezing water and scale steep hills to capture the North Korean stronghold.
Led by Captain Lee Myung-heum, these 718 students and a handful of officers arrived on the landing ship LST Moonsan during a heavy storm.
In September 1950, as United Nations forces were pinned down within the , a high-stakes plan called Operation Chromite was devised to land at Incheon and reclaim Seoul. To draw North Korean attention away from the real target, a group of 772 student soldiers—mostly teenagers with only two weeks of training—were sent to Jangsari Beach on the east coast.