Bombing by the United States Air Force
General MacArthur, the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army in the Far East, returned from the Tokyo airport where Dulles was sent off. He saw an emergency telegram, which stated that Washington had approved his use of naval and air forces to support the retreating South Korean army.
As Lieutenant General George Stemeleye, the commander of the Far East Air Force, was having a meeting in the United States, MacArthur issued a series of verbal orders to the deputy commander of the Far East Air Force, Earl Pardrich. He ordered the Far East Air Force to move out within 36 hours and use all available means to beat up the North Koreans and let them taste the power of the US Air Force.
MacArthur approved Pardrich's request to transfer a bomber group from the US military base in Guam to the Japanese air base. Finally, MacArthur reminded Paritch,""The Far East Air Force is on full alert to prevent the Soviet Union from attacking Japan.”
Before dusk, the Far East Air Force Base was in a state of chaos. The reconnaissance plane set off to take pictures of the battlefield. The ground crew at the airport was loading bombs on the B-26. The fuel trucks shuttled back and forth. The pilots gathered to study the targets that should be attacked in every narrow area of the Korean Peninsula.
On June 27th, after nightfall, when the South Korean President was planning to flee from Seoul, ten American B-26 bomber planes loaded with bombs took off. The fleet passed through the thick clouds over the Sea of Japan and flew toward the Korean Peninsula.
The Far Eastern Air Force was in trouble. First, because of the bad weather and the darkness of the night, the bomber planes that took off could not find the North Korean People's Army tank column north of Seoul, so they carried the bombs through the thick clouds above the Sea of Japan and flew back.
Then, when the Far East Air Force plane took off and flew to North Korea again, the sky above the Korean Peninsula was covered with thick clouds. The bomber returned empty-handed for the second time.
MacArthur was furious at the Air Force's performance. He said to Pardrich over the phone,""We have to use the air force as soon as possible, or the South Korean army will be finished!”
MacArthur's Chief of Staff, Major General Edward Almond, said to Pardrich,""We must drop the bombs on North Korea at all costs, whether they are accurate or not. In other words, it didn't matter if the bomb was dropped on the North or South Korean soldiers, as long as the bomb was dropped!”
The next day, the reconnaissance plane pilot, Bryce Bo, took off first in the reconnaissance plane. He finally saw the sky above the Korean Peninsula clear up. Therefore, a large number of planes from the Far East Air Force began to take off. This was the most unlucky day for the B-26 bomber.
When they dropped bombs on the railway and highway near the 38th parallel, the North Korean ground air defense fire was unexpectedly fierce, and almost every B-26 was hit.
One of the planes was forced to land at Suwon Airport near Seoul. The other severely damaged plane returned to the Japanese base, but it was completely scrapped.
The most tragic thing was that a heavily damaged B-26 crashed to the ground at Ashiya Airport in Japan, killing all the crew members on board.
The damage of the F-80 fighter jet was lighter than that of the bomber, but because the distance from the Japanese airport to the North Korean battlefield was almost the limit of the aircraft's range of activity, the pilots were fighting with fear, lest they couldn't go home if they were not careful.
They found a long line of tanks and trucks on the road north of Seoul, and they really began to attack "whether it was accurate or not." " Flames soared into the sky on the 80-kilometer highway.
It was the B-29 bomber that was cursed by the commander of the South Korean 1st Division, Bae Son Yup. This type of strategic bomber, known as the " Sky Fortress," should not have been deployed in a purely tactical support operation, but four of them were dispatched under MacArthur's insistence.
The crew of the four huge bomber planes adopted an extreme method. As long as they found a target on the ground, whether it was a group of soldiers or a team of tanks, whether it was an enemy or a friend, in their words: "As long as it looks worth bombing, drop the bomb.”
As a result, the B-29 bomber planes flying along the road north of Seoul and the railway parallel to the road dropped most of the bombs on the retreating South Korean soldiers. The Han Country's army was blasted into wails and howls, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.
Even the staff officers of the Far East Air Force felt that it was strange to use the strategic bomber in this way, but General MacArthur demanded that the strength of the US Air Force be maximized.
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