Re: An Eyewitness to American Germwar in South Korea

[<Jwscpd8@aol.com>]

In a message dated 08/09/2001 5:35:18 PM Mountain Daylight Time, 
Decaturvlp@aol.com writes:

<< bed check charlies" night 
 harrassment flights over Kimpo and other troops, dropping NK PsyOp leaflets, 
 small badly aimed bombs, etc........I'd have to check my library but I 
 believe one or more was shot down at night by a Navy F4U5N Corsair 
 nightfighter.   >>

When I arrived on the MLR at the end of January 1951, I was warned about bed 
check Charlie and he was supposed to be dropping mortar rounds out the window 
of the plane.  Later, when he was at last shot down, it was supposedly by a 
Navy night fighter jet, the one with the long nose on it that housed the 
radar and was I think blue in color.  I only saw them once in my sector for a 
few minutes.

John W.