The Korean War, 70 Years Ago, The Inquirer, Philadelphia PA
Korean War Weekly Front Pages
24 February 1952 – 1 March 1952
The Inquirer, Philadelphia PA
“Kill GIs!”
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Fanatical, die-hard Communists had taken over control of the UN compound where 6,000 civilian internees attacked American soldiers the past Monday. The group, shouting “Kill GIs!”, attacked members of the 25th Division, who had entered the compound to find out which of the internees were Communists. A revised toll of riot casualties said 75 civilian internees and one American soldier were killed. Thirty-nine American soldiers were wounded, one seriously.
Major William (Whiz) Whisner, of Shreveport, LA, became history’s seventh jet ace when he shot his fifth MIG-15 out of the sky to save the life of a fellow pilot. The blazing air battle over northwest Korea, in which two other Russian-made jets were damaged, was the highlight of the slow-moving Korean War.
Heavy Communist cannonading rocked the eastern front, but there was no immediate indication of a new Red offensive. Much of the fire came from an enemy hornet’s nest known as “Luke the Gook’s Castle.”
The Air Force was preparing to deliver tactical atomic bombs by jet fighter-bombers against enemy targets almost anywhere in the world on short notice. Informed sources gave positive indications that such bombs, small enough to be carried by the special planes, were available in limited quantities or soon would be. Although small in size, the tactical A-bombs had about the same destructive power as those that razed Hiroshima and Nagasaki and forced Japan to her knees in the Second World War.
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