By the time the USS Pickaway sailed into Pusan Harbor, Lt. Col. Raymond L. Murray had been informed that his troops, the 5th Marine Regiment and the main element of the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade should hit the ground running and be on the move. Brig. Gen. Edward A Craig, the Brigade’s commanding general who took this advance party to Korea on 25 July, had previously met with Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, commanding officer of the U.S.S. Eighth Army, and the other United Nation’s forces which were being overrun by the North Korean People’s Army. Sixty miles west of Pusan the United Nation’s front was collapsing at a fast rate as the Marines, including Able Company of the 1st Marine Tank Battalion, began debarking late in the afternoon of 2 August. The troops were not a minute too soon, and one day later the Marines were plugged into the line west of Chindon-Ni. It wasn’t long before the lead element of the 1st Marine Division was doing what it had been ordered to do: make preparations for the upcoming Inchon Invasion and turn the desperate situation into a stranglehold on the enemy.