No Gun Ri Massacre
"Captain Chandler ordered machine-gunners from his heavy-weapons
company to set up near the tunnel mouths and open fire."
-ex-GI from No Gun Ri massacre
In late July of 1950, to avoid North Korean approach, two villages were told to move. As they came to the No Gun Ri railroad bridge, they were ordered off the road by the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Calvary Division. After searching the villagers, they ordered an air attack upon the villagers. One hundred villagers were dead by the attack and survivors were killed by U.S. ground troops under the bridge. Totally, 400 civilians were killed.
'The floor under the bridge was a mixture of gravel and sand. People clawed with their bare hands to make holes to hide in. Other people piled up the dead like a barricade, and hid behind the bodies as a shield against the bullets.'
-Yang Hae Chan, survivor from No Gun Ri Massacre |
Source: The movie "Little Pond", 2010, No Gun Ri Production
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"There was a lieutenant screaming like a madman, fire on everything, kill 'em all." "I didn't know if they were soldiers or what. Kids, there was kids out there, it didn't matter what it was, eight to 80, blind, crippled or crazy, they shot 'em all.'"
- Joe Jackman, 7th Cavalry Korean War veteran
- Joe Jackman, 7th Cavalry Korean War veteran
Gokgye Cave Massacre
In January of 1951, refugee were travelling down a route that passed by Nu-Ti village. They found Gokgye Cave as a shelter. Bombs started to drop and killed those at the entrance. Some villagers, who tried to flee the cave, were shot by U.S ground troops with machine guns. Approximately 200 to 300 civilians were killed.
“The cave quickly became a graveyard. It took several days just to remove the corpses. And I suspect there were many bodies that were left behind. Up until the following year, we would find, after a heavy rain, all kinds of body parts, heads, and severed limbs washed up onto the ditches of the village. It was really revolting". - Kim Ok Yi, 26 years old then, a survival from Gokgye Cave |
"without delay the methodical destruction of dwellings and other buildings forward of the front lines which are, or are susceptible of being, utilized by the enemy for shelter. Employ air strikes and available ground means, including Arty and Inf. incendiary Ammo."
- Edward Almond, Commander of the X Corps |