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AP — It was a story no one
wanted to hear: Early in the Kore
an War, villagers said, American
soldiers machine-gunned hundreds
of helpless civilians under a rail
road bridge in the South Korean
countryside.
When the families spoke out,
seeking redress, they met only re
jection and denial from the U.S.
military and their own government
in Seoul. Now a dozen ex-GIs have
spoken, too, and support their sto
ry with haunting memories from a
“forgotten” war.
American veterans of the Korean
War said that in late July 1950, in the
conflict’s first weeks, U.S. troops
killed a large number of South Kore
an refugees, many of them women
and children, trapped beneath a
bridge at a hamlet called No Gun Ri.
In interviews with the Associat
ed Press, ex-GIs speak of 100 or 200
or “hundreds” dead. The Koreans,
whose claim for compensation was
rejected last year, said 300 were
killed at the bridge and 100 in a
preceding air attack.
American soldiers, in their third
day at the warfront, feared North
Korean infiltrators among the flee
ing South Korean peasants, veter
ans told the AP.
The ex-GIs described other
refugee killings as well in the war’s
first weeks, when U.S. comman
ders ordered their troops to shoot
civilians, citizens of an allied na
tion, as a defense against disguised
enemy soldiers, according to once-
classified documents found by the
AP in U.S. military archives.
Six veterans of the 1st Cavalry Di
vision said they fired on the civilians
at No Gun Ri, and six others said
they witnessed the mass killing.
“We just annihilated them,” ex
machine gunner Norman Tinkler
of Glasco, Kan., said.
After five decades, none gave a
complete, detailed account. But the
ex-GIs agreed on such elements as
time and place, and on the pre
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