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 and rockets, Vogel's flight hit the target "very effectively." Later that day, VF-114 and VA-115 teamed up to blast the marshaling yards and the Standard Oil Company warehouses 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 at Inchon, setting it afire. CAG Vogel led another VF-114 strike on August 13th, this time against targets near Pyongyang, the North Korean Capital. After replenishing at Sasebo, Japan on 14-15 August 1950, PHILIPPINE SEA returned to the east coast of Korea, commencing CAS (Close Air Support) for hard-pressed United Nations Forces and bombing key bridges near Seoul on the 16th. Next day, VF-113 caught a 20-truck convoy with a cargo of artillery on the road south of Songjin and obliterated it. At 1531 on August 19, 1950, PHILIPPINE SEA launched eight F4Us from VF-114 lead by Vogel-on a strike near Seoul. While the four-plane CAP (Combat Air Patrol) 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 hurtled to the ground. Vogel was a little under a month 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. The next day, ENS C.L. Smith of VF-112 died when his Panther crashed and burned near Sariwon. PHILIPPINE SEA cleared Korean waters on 20 August and Commander Ralph Weymouth, skipper of VF-112 temporarily became CAG-11. The next day, as the ship lay anchored at Sasebo, a memorial service was held for Commander Vogel and Ensign Smith. CV-47 finished her replenishment at Sasebo on 25 August and returned to the east coast of Korea. On the 27th, CVG-11 hit shipping in Wonsan Harbor-damaging what pilots claimed as a "destroyer escort", with rockets and cannon fire, and two "gunboats" by strafing. Between August 26 and September 4, 1950, CVG-11 pilots claimed destruction of a "fleet type minelayer" and four patrol craft at Wonsan. They conducted emergency GAS in defense of the Pusan perimeter and destroyed key bridges along the North Korean lines of communication. PHILIPPINE SEA's aviators also discovered the enemy's major staging base at Kangge and photographed Inchon prior to the amphibious landing there.