Word: sunchon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Presumed Dead. Lieut. James Alward Van Fleet Jr., U.S. Air Force, only son of retired Army General James A. Van Fleet; two years after he was listed as missing following the disappearance of his B-26 bomber behind Communist lines; near Sunchon, Korea...
...Weak and exhausted after nine days jammed in open gondola cars, U.N. prisoners were herded off a prison train, 30 at a time, in Sunchon tunnel on Oct. 20, 1950. Communist soldiers escorted them down the,tracks, told them to hide in an erosion ditch while they waited for food. As soon as the prisoners had relaxed on the ground, the guards opened point-blank fire with burp guns and rifles. U.S. deaths: at least...
...same night, the tail gunner and fire-control man in a B-29 of another squadron saw much the same thing over Sunchon, 80 miles away. The flyers reported that the object looked globular rather than disk-shaped. It followed their plane for more than a minute. Then it vanished...
Later in the week, when B-29s struck the Sunchon railway bridge, the MIG pilots followed the bombers almost down to the 38th parallel, and brought down one of the eight...
...G.I.s, who had been hiding in Pyongyang, told Brigadier General Frank A. Allen, deputy commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, that other G.I. prisoners had been loaded on a northbound train. Allen got into his jeep and set out in pursuit. Inside a railway tunnel ten miles north of Sunchon, a South Korean soldier pointed out the bodies of seven American soldiers who had starved to death. Then, on the bridge above the tunnel, appeared five haggard, hysterical G.I.s. They guided General Allen to a small gully where a heap of 17 bodies lay hidden by underbrush. Another pile...