Word: boatner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarked that the Communist commanders had opened a second front in Korea-in the U.N.'s prison stockades. It was too close to the truth to be funny. Brigadier General "Bull" Boatner, Koje Island's tough new boss, seemed to be gaining in his battle with the prisoners-slowly, and not without bloodshed. Boatner's big test would come when the new 500-man enclosures were completed, and the ticklish job was started of transferring the prisoners from the big compounds-probably this week or next...
Standing on a table to welcome a contingent of Canadian troops, Boatner advised them not to kill unless absolutely necessary: "If you get into a fight [with a prisoner], slash him, use the butt of your rifle, give him the knee in the groin...
...Eighth Army Commander General James A. Van Fleet, on Koje to inspect the new precautions, everything looked fine & dandy, as it has all along to him. "I don't think there will be any more trouble," Soldier Van Fleet announced optimistically. "Bull" Boatner thought otherwise. "We can't get into those compounds," he fretted. "We can't take a roll-call. We don't know what they're plotting." But plotting they were...
...Communist doctors and medical orderlies at Koje hospital staged a sitdown strike for better food, the right to take regular sunbaths, and the removal of South Korean guards. "Damned absurd!" roared General Boatner. He ordered the strikers to report to him; when they balked, he clapped them behind bars...
...fanatic shot by a U.S. sergeant for resisting search. Shortly after dawn, a P.W. band using beer-can bugles, bamboo flutes and drums made of oilcans struck up an eerie cacophony. Twelve Chinese carrying flowers made of G.I. toilet paper shuffled out of the compound to the camp cemetery. Boatner approved the procession; in return, the Communists agreed to remove insulting anti-U.N. slogans from the barbed wire fence.* In Compound 76, the scene of General Dodd's imprisonment, unidentified corpses, presumably anti-Communists murdered by Red ringleaders, were cremated in a funeral pyre, 40 ft. long...