Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concur, my liaison officers, the senior officer of whom will not be above the rank of colonel will depart Kimpo Airfield southwest of Seoul by helicopter at 2300 G.M.T. on July 4 (6 p.m. E.S.T. July 4) or at the same hour on the day agreed upon for this meeting, proceeding direct to Kaesong...
...event of bad weather, these officers will proceed in a convoy of three unarmed quarter ton trucks. The trucks, commonly known as jeeps, will proceed along the main road from Seoul to Kaesong...
...convoy will cross the Imjin River on the Seoul-Kaesong road at about 2300 hours G.M.T. 4 July (6 p.m. E.S.T. July 4) or at the same hour on the day agreed upon to this meeting...
...North Korean hideout and bombed U.N. positions with 44-lb. mortar shells, apparently chucked over the side. For good measure, his rear-seat man did a bit of strafing with a burp gun. For two successive nights and twice each night, Bed Check attacked a U.S. airbase at Seoul. No one chuckled more heartily at the Air Force's embarrassment than U.S. foot-sloggers. They pointed gleefully to hurriedly dug foxholes around Air Force installations, howled when one flustered young Air Force officer appeared during one of Bed Check's attacks decked out in pajamas and bathrobe with...
Near week's end Captain Richard M. Heyman, flying a B-26 Invader near Seoul, dropped down to investigate a suspicious blip picked up by radar. At 500 ft., he sighted an enemy plane that looked in the moonlight as though it might be Bed Check Charlie's crate. Captain Heyman fired a single burst from his .50-cahber guns, and the plane flew apart in midair. Air Force officers were pretty sure they had finished off Bed Check, but refused to say so definitely, suggested that other Bed Checks might turn up. If that happened...