On August 9th, 1950 Commander Vogel flew with VF-114, leading a strike against the Riken Metal Company in Seoul, Korea using 500-lb bombs as well as rockets, Vogel's flight hit the target "very effectively". Later that day, VF-114 and VA-115 teamed up to blast the marshalling yards and the Standard Oil Company warehouse in Seoul, leaving the latter burning and knocked out several boxcars and a locomotive. That same day, VF-113 Corsairs bombed, strafed and rocketed a factory in Inchon, setting it afire. CAG Vogel led another VF-114 strike on August 13th, this time against targets near Pyongyang - the North Korean capital. PHIL SEA had two days in Sasebo to replenish on 14-15 August. There was no liberty! Afterwards we returned to the east coast of Korea, commencing Close Air Support for hard-pressed United Nations Forces and bombing key bridges near Seoul on the 16th. On the following day, VF-113 caught a 20-truck convoy with a cargo of artillery on the road south of Songjin and obliterated it. On late afternoon of August 19th, 1950 PHIL SEA launched eight F4Us from VF-114 lead by Vogel on a strike near Seoul. While the four-plane CAP element encountered no enemy aircraft, the four strike aircraft hit a bridge span with one 500-pounder on the first pass. Sully Vogel came around again for a second pass, but enemy anti-aircraft fire hit his Corsair and set it afire. Vogel bailed out of the burning Corsair and pilots saw his chute stream, but it did not open and his body hurled to the ground. Vogel was a little shy of his 36th birthday; a veteran of aerial combat in the Pacific in World War II. He left a widow and five children. Although CVG-11 pilots destroyed the Han River bridge near Seoul that day, little solace lay in the feat. On the following day, Ensign C.L. Smith of VF-112 died when his Panther crashed and burned near Sariwon. On August 20th Commander Ralph Weymouth, skipper or VF-112 temporarily became CAG-11. The next day the PHIL SEA dropped the hook in Sasebo, Japan for five days of well-deserved R&R. PHILSEA finished her replenishment on August 25th - a very short in-port period. Great for the local economy but hard on the "onionskinners" . On August 27th our Air Group hit shipping in Wonsan Harbor and damaged what pilots called a destroyer escort by rockets and and two gunboats by strafing. The Groups aircraft also CAS in defense of the Pusan perimeter and destroyed key bridges along the North Korean lines of communication. PHILSEA's aviators also discovered the North Korean's major staging area at Kangge and photographed Inchon prior to the amphbious landing there.