Re: Crew Chief Massacre

["Les Hanson" <hanson@totalnetnh.net>]

heard from F-86  Crew Chief kimpo AB during korean war,the story is a Myth,a
story that generated  over a bottle of beer.
A longAgo Airman
----- Original Message -----
From: "J.L. Pearson" <onewmsvc@fastq.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 8:00 PM
Subject: Crew Chief Massacre


> My son is a crew chief stationed at Eielson in Alaska.  He's just told me
a
> story that I find so off-the-wall, I'm hoping one of you can set me (and
> him) straight.
>
> It seems that at the onset of the Korean War, an airbase was overrun by
NK.
> Although the aircraft took off, the crew chiefs who remained behind were
> skinned alive and hung in the hangers by the North Koreans.  That part of
> the story I believe - I've read and heard enough about the war's horrors.
> However, my son insists that the pilots were later disgraced because they
> did not carry out their long standing orders, which are to shoot crew
chiefs
> rather than leave them at the mercy of the enemy.  Consequently, this
> squadron, known as the ZZ squadron, is forever banned to Korea.
>
> Does this ring true?  Are pilots really ordered to kill those left behind
> rather than allow them to fend for themselves?  Or is this a urban legend,
> military-style, to pull one over on non-coms?
>
> Judy
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