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Flaming Broom. At Kimpo airfield, there was no time to save 500,000 gallons of fuel and 23,000 gallons of napalm (jellied gasoline for fire bombs). They went up in black smoke. The airfield barracks were soaked with kerosene; then a captain ran from one to another, setting them afire with a flaming broom. At Inchon, the port troops and thousands of civilians were evacuated under the guns of warships of five nations (U.S., British, Canadian, Australian, Dutch). The last two LSTs were floated off the mud flats by a high tide as the Chinese were swarming into...
Later that day Popko was taken to the Pusan airfield and flown to a hospital near Tokyo. Two weeks later they sent him home to Bayonne, NJ. A lot of people asked him would he do it again-enlist if he knew what was ahead? Said Stan Popko: "I guess I would. I can't see myself spending my life as a counterman or hanging around streetcorners...
...August 12. Armed Recon. Hit Kimpo airfield, burned 4 yak fighters, damaged one more. Burned truck South of Taejon. Heavy flak...
...miles away at Yonpo airfield, U.S. troops went grimly about the business of burning or blowing up barracks, buildings and other installations which the Chinese, whether they arrived in the morning or next week, might find useful. Similar demolitions went on at the same time in other parts of the U.S. perimeter. Withdrawing 3rd Division infantrymen blew their rail and motor bridges behind them. Near Hungnam X Corps engineers blew up another railroad bridge along with almost 400 freight cars and 30 locomotives. They said they definitely weren't going to blow up the new 1950 Japanese cars...
...last Halloween, the airlift had switched from gas and C rations to ammunition and medical supplies. Sometimes, too, the situation called for a fast switch in reverse. Just before the last transport plane pulled out of Sinanju last week, one of Tunner's men noticed on the airfield 25 loaves of specially baked and blessed Moslem bread, the remnants of four tons flown in to supply the Turkish Brigade. The pilot carefully poured gasoline on the bread and set it afire before he departed. Said he: "I thought the Chinamen would like some toast...