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"In the fall of 1999, a team of Associated Press investigative reporters broke the news that U.S. troops had killed a large group of South Korean refugees, mostly women and children, early in the Korean War. On the eve of that pivotal conflict's fiftieth anniversary, their reports brought to light a story that had been suppressed for decades.
The story made headlines around the world and sparked an official investigation by the Pentagon that confirmed the allegations the U.S. military had dismissed, and Charles Hanley, Sang-Hun Choe and Martha Mendoza were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting.".
"The Bridge at No Gun Ri brings to life these American GIs and Korean villagers, the high-level decision-making that led to their fatal encounter, the terror of the three-day slaughter, the harrowing months of war that followed and the memories and ghosts that forever haunted the survivors. The Bridge at No Gun Ri also presents for the first time the full documented background of a broad landscape of refugee killings in Korea that lasted into 1951.
Based on extensive archival research, including newly unearthed documents that show unmistakably where responsibility lay for the widespread civilian killings, and more than five hundred interviews with U.S. veterans and Korean survivors, The Bridge at No Gun Ri is an authoritative account of the terrifying events of July 1950 - a long-buried secret from a misunderstood war."--BOOK JACKET.
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United States, United States. Army. Cavalry, 7th, Campaigns, Massacres, History, Atrocities, Korean War, 1950-1953, Korean war, 1950-1953, personal narratives, american, Korean war, 1950-1953, regimental histories, Korean war, 1950-1953, campaigns, United states, army, regimental histories, Korea, historyPlaces
Korea (South), No Gun Ri, Nogŭn-ni, Nogŭn-ni (Korea), Seoul, United StatesTimes
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The bridge at No Gun Ri: a hidden chapter from the Korean War
2001, Henry Holt and Co.
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The Bridge at No Gun Ri: A Hidden Nightmare from the Korean War
September 6, 2001, Henry Holt and Co.
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This is the untold human story behind the massacre of South Korean refugees by American soldiers in the early days of the Korean War, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists whose reports first brought to light this dark underside of the war, an episode long hidden from history.
The book tells the deeper, intimate story of individual Americans and South Koreans whose paths intersected at the No Gun Ri bridge, where up to 400 innocent civilians were killed, mostly women and children. It looks at their ordinary lives and at the high-level decisions that led to the fateful encounter; at the terror of the three-day slaughter; at the memories and ghosts that forever haunted those who were there, soldiers and shattered Korean survivors alike. Drawn in vivid detail from more than 500 interviews with U.S. veterans and Korean survivors, and from extensive archival research, the book shows unmistakably where responsibility lay for widespread civilian killings in 1950 Korea.
Extraordinary in its scope, shocking in its revelations, "The Bridge at No Gun Ri'' has been likened to Hersey's "Hiroshima'' as a powerful, classic testament to the ravages of war. (From publisher's material.)
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"Word came through the line, open fire on them," Wenzel recalled. "They were running toward us and we opened fire." The Koreans seemed "confused," he said. "We understood that we were fighting for these people, but we had orders to fire on them and we did." The mind of this young man, the sad boy who raised two small sisters back in New Jersey, was then and there, at No Gun Ri, imprinted with its own freeze frame: of a little girl caught in the sights of his M-1. "I think I shot her."
A "little girl" claimed her place in others' memories, too. "She came running toward us. You should have seen guys trying to kill that little girl with machine guns," said James McClure, who was in a 2nd Battalion reconnaissance squad. "She was crying and she ran back into that mess, and I guess the mortars got her."
For Ralph Bernotas, what lodged in the mind was the distant sight of a "fountain" of white clothing, of refugees' bodies "splashing" into the air with the impact of shells. "Seeing that mortar fire coming in on that mass of people was very hard to take," said the altar boy from the coal country.
It is a sampling of the graphic, powerful detail from Part II, the heart of the book, which in Part I introduces the reader to the American soldiers and Korean villagers who figure prominently in the story, and in Part III follows the impact of their traumatic experience on the rest of their lives, and the quest for the truth pursued by one of the Korean survivors.
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