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Secretary of State William S. Cohen announced Monday that he has asked Ernest R. May, Warren professor of American history, to join a group that will investigate American conduct in the tiny village of Nokuen-Ri during the Korean...
MASSACRE AT NO GUN RI...
...report that in 1950 U.S. Army troops in Korea fired on civilians under the bridge at No Gun Ri did not come as a surprise to me [WORLD, Oct. 11]. I spent 26 months in the U.S. Army in Korea doing my mandatory military service. I've seen G.I.s in panic. And what's worse, when a few stupid G.I.s don't stop doing foolish, sometimes cruel things, the result can be murder and rape. YOON WONSUP Seoul...
Accounts of what happened at No Gun Ri, a hamlet some 100 miles southeast of Seoul, are hazy and conflicting. But taken together, they paint a picture of panic, fear, vague military orders and, finally, individual G.I.s struggling with the dictates of conscience. The Koreans under the bridge were part of a wave fleeing the North Korean army as it plunged southward in a month-old invasion of the South. North Korean infiltrators in civilian garb had been slipping through U.S. lines, guiding in artillery strikes and sniping at the retreating Americans. Days earlier, units of the 1st Cavalry Division...
G.I.s say a throng--including many women, children and old men--had sought protection under the No Gun Ri bridge from an earlier, perhaps errant, U.S. air raid. They had been pinned down for three days. U.S. forces at the bridge came under repeated enemy attack. The G.I.s regularly fired bursts over the heads of the cowering civilians. "But then we were ordered to kill them all," Edward Daily of Clarksville, Tenn., then a corporal in the 7th Cavalry Regiment's 2nd Battalion, told TIME. "So I lowered the barrel and kept firing...