Word: mcgarr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the first night's breaks, U.N. Brigadier General Lionel McGarr relieved the ROK guards at Camp No. 10 near Inchon with marines and U.S. Army M.P.s. They were told to fire only if their own lives were threatened. On the second night, No. 10's inmates assembled inside the stockades, hurled volleys of stones, charged the wire in masses. The U.S. guards fired, killing or wounding more than 100. Some prisoners were trampled to death, others were torn to bits on the wire. Altogether, more than 40 of them died at Inchon. The marines themselves were fired...