Gimpo International Airport Squadron shot down four Ilyushin Il-10s for no losses over Gimpo in the USAF's first jet-aircraft victory. Gimpo was captured by the KPA shortly after the capture of Seoul on 28 June 1950. On 29 June eight B-29s of the 19th Bomb Group bombed Gimpo and the Seoul railyards. By July the KPAF were using the base for attacks on UN forces, on 10 July, seven Yak-7s were hidden at Gimpo and used in strikes against UN positions at Cheongju. The next day they surprised and damaged several F-80s in the area. On 15 July the US launched an attack
Gimpo Peninsula Gimpo Peninsula Gimpo Peninsula is a peninsula on the West Coast of the South Korea, occupied by most of Gimpo and Geomdan Dong and a little part of Gyeyang District in Incheon. Most part of Gimpo Peninsula consists of plain except its northwest part in Tongjin Eup and Daegot Myeon with low hills. Its east part is a part of a plain named Gimpo Plains with the part across the Han River, containing part of low land in Goyang City and Paju City. The northwest part of the Peninsula is often named Tongjin Peninsula after former Tongjin County or Tongjin