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Why are we comparing today's armed forces capabilities? The only branches that are doing serious vehicle hauling is the US Air Force, Jingle trucks, contract cargo aircraft's, and contract vehicle cargo ships during OIF/OEF. Actually the same still applies for Afghanistan currently (Karachi Seaport which vehicles are Jingle trucked in through border points of Spin Budak and Chaman , Bagram Airfield and Kandahar Airfield where heavy vehicles are flown in where they are either convoyed out and if possible fitted in a C130 heading...........
Bastion/Leatherneck
Orgun-e and Sharana
JBAD and ABAD
Herat
etc etc etc

Though the list of LST's used during the Korean can be found here
http://www.koreanwar.org/html/looknavy.htm

Landing Ship

Service Craft Unit Four (LCU) Yong Do Ammo Dump
LCU-1080
LSU-1402

Landing Ship Dock

LSD-18
USS Cabildo (LSD-16)
USS Colonial (LSD-18)
USS Comstock (LSD-19)
USS Epping Forest (LSD-4)
USS Fort Marion (LSD-22)
USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5)
USS Catamount (LSD-17)
USS Tortuga (LSD-26)
USS Whetstone (LSD-27)

Landing Ship Tank

LST-1006
LST-1032 (not serve in Korea)
LST-1048 Morgan County
LST-1073 Outagamie County
LST-1077 Park County
LST-1078
LST-1081 Pima County
LST-1082 Pitkin County
LST-1083 Plumas County
LST-1084 Polk County
LST-1101 Saline County
LST-1102 Chimon (AKS-31)
LST-1123 Sedgwick County
LST-1134 Stark County
LST-1148 Sumner County
LST- 391
LST-503
LST-516 Calaveras County
LST-529
LST-561
LST-611
LST-629
LST-715
LST-722
LST-742
LST-758
LST-772
LST-799 Greer County
LST-802 Hamilton County
LST-819 Hampshire County
LST-822 Harris County
LST-825 Hickman County
LST-845 Jefferson County
LST-857
LST-859 Lafayette County
LST-898 Lincoln County
LST-914 Mahoning County
LST-973 Trapp
LST-975 Marion County
LST-1080 Pender County

Going to ASSUME they were all run by Navy because I cannot see Coast Guard operating a LST.

Good thing that terrain dictates being if it was terrain similar to Europe then UN forces would have been out right screwed. Back in that time it was Infantry work.

actually the USCG Did operate LST's and all the way up to destroyers, at least during WWII NO idea if that carried over to the Korean war. BTW My wife Is still AD USCG

IN regards to one of the questions I posted earlier about the marines and 7th infantry holding onto Wonsan harbor. I personally think they either would have taken significant pressure off the 8th army because the Chinese would have had to secure their supply lines before advancing and it would have caused the war to come to a stalemate on a friendlier line for the UN Forces. the biggest pitfall to this operation would be the reliance on ROK forces to hold the line that was eventually occupied by the retreating X Corps. At the same time thought, reserve units in PUSAN could have been moved up to stabilize the line while more troops were transported from the US/UK and other UN countries. in the end I think the UN would have been better off if MacArthur had left the X corps way up the peninsula.

You have to look at the road maps of the Korean War



Wonsan Landing was blocking off the Eastern side of the Korean Peninsula route of logistical support and lines of communications . Not only for units close to the Eastern side of the Korean Peninsula but North Korean units located in the middle of the Korean Peninsula.

10th Corp was stretched to the limit and was withdrawn to stiffen 8th Army who were a bit depleted and stretched to the limit.

Have to remember all the main road networks were the focal point to control a given area. Not only that but control of the ridge lines and mountain tops were hotly contested. There were two man road artery to Wonsan that China and North Korea could have used to take Wonsan that would really have put a major crimp in UN forces coming down from Chosin if "Red Force" blocked at Wonsan and attacked up to Hungnam