Korean War and Classified Reconnaissance Recollections and Related Stories

David Lee Hill was born on 13 July 1915 in Kwangju, Korea, the son of a missionary who moved to Texas when he was six. After finishing Austin College in 1938, “Tex” completed naval flight school and served in a torpedo squadron on the USS Saratoga and in a dive-bomber squadron on the USS Ranger. Hill was among the first Americans to see combat in World

    Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the Commander in Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy in WWII. He was considered Japan’s greatest military leader, credited with the success of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. Naval Intelligence had broken the Japanese Military Code, and on April 14th, 1943, they intercepted a message that said Admiral Yamamoto would be flying to Bougainville on the 18th. The

B-29 CREWS TORTURED BY THE JAPANESE Japanese war crimes I am completely speechless, disgusted, saddened, shocked, infuriated, and sick after researching this story about JAPANESE WAR ATROCITIES. If you can read this article without being shocked to the point of throwing up, then you must have a strong stomach. As time passes we deny the Holocaust, and the Japanese make continued long term attempts to re-write

Publisher: The Lyons Press Author: George Feifer Length: 492 PAGES The Battle for Okinawa can be described in the grim superlatives of war. In size, scope and ferocity, it dwarfed the Battle of Britain. Never before had there been, probably never again will there be, such a vicious sprawling struggle of planes against planes, of ships against planes. Never before, in so short a space, had

B-29s Suffer Major Damage by Mig-15s in the Black Tuesday Over Namsi Raid   Viewers of your website will probably be interested in knowing that my new book, BLACK TUESDAY OVER NAMSI, A TRUE HISTORY OF THE EPIC AIR BATTLE OF THE KOREAN WAR, has been published and is available for purchase from Heritage Books, Inc. 1-800-876-6103. The book chronicles the calamitous B-29 daylight-bombing mission flown

All five brothers were killed when their ship was sunk by a Japanese sub. The death of the five Sullivan brothers was impossible to imagine. So horrible it forced the U.S. War department to adopt “The Sole Survivor Policy” so it would never happen again. Can anyone even think of the heartache that the Sullivan family suffered? How much sorrow can a family take? The brothers

Copy of Pacific Stars and Stripes article, December 30, 1950 This article about the 31st and 91st Recon Sq was in a Stars and Stripes Sunday supplement. There was a full page of photos plus the following text: Story provided courtesy of William F. (Bill) Welch, crewmember on Lt. Earle Ambrose’s crew. The story of the highly secret mission of a little-known group of men and

THE KUGISHO MXY7-K1 OHKA The Ohka (CHERRY BLOSSOM) was a Japanese suicide plane powered by three solid propellant rocket motors with 8 to 10 seconds firing endurance. It carried a 2646 pound high explosive warhead in the nose. It was actually a flying torpedo. Used mostly against American ships invading Okinawa, it was extremely effective. It was carried to the target beneath a mother aircraft such

The 19th Bomb Group is one of the oldest military organizations, having served with distinction in two World Wars plus Korea. It is one of the most decorated units in the Strategic Air Command. Their motto has always been “A CHECKMATE TO AGGRESSION”. WE will endeavor to cover their performance in the Korean War. Operation Korea After serving in WW11, the 19th was assigned to Guam

Plans to Drop Atomic Bombs Would Have Caused WWIII The fame of Douglas MacArthur saturates American history. As a graduate of the United States Military Academy his exploits have filled numerous books. His rise to power came through his brilliant and sometimes flamboyant victories in the brutal war in the Philippines during WWII. He had retired from active service in December, 1937, but was recalled to

Migs Mig-1 Through Mig-35 Introduction Mikoyan-I-Gurevich design bureau is a Russian military aircraft design bureau primarily for fighter aircraft. It was formerly a Soviet design bureau founded by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich, known as “MIG.” The Russian government is planning to merge Mikoyan and Gurevich with Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named “United Aircraft Corporation.” The MIG has been used

Nuclear Weapons And Aircraft Waited For Orders   Introduction: In the past I was invited to speak and give a slide show covering the Korean War of 1950 to large groups of professional engineers. During one of my talks I briefly mentioned that the U.S. came dangerously close to dropping multiple A-Bombs on N. Korea during the 1950 war. After each one of my talks I