Following the Inchon Landing and the recapture of Seoul in September 1950 then Lieutenant Colonel Blaisdell and another chaplain, Colonel Wallace I. Wolverton began attending to war orphans in the Seoul area. Initially the orphans were placed in a Seoul orphanage, but as the number of orphans continued to increase, the two together with Blaisdell's chaplain's assistant Staff Sergeant Merle "Mike" Y. Strang and Korean social workers established the Orphans Processing Center, eventually providing food and shelter for over 1000 orphans. After Wolverton left South Korea, Blaisdell continued to manage the center.