Chapter 35: The Bombing of Gimpo Airport by Operation Nest Smashing

Commander of the Far Eastern Air Force, Lieutenant General Sterei. He attended a ceremony arranged by Far East Commander MacArthur on October 30 to welcome South Korean President Syngman Rhee to Pyongyang.

He and MacArthur landed in a helicopter on bullet-riddled Stalin Street. A meeting with South Korean President Syngman Rhee in a room in the building of Pyongyang's municipal axe.

The president was born in a scholarly family, his father was a scholar class, the family was well-off, but the scholar was affected by the ineffective production, the family road is gradually broken, the Li family 6 generations of single transmission, it is said that his mother dreamed of a big dragon sneaking into her arms when she was forty years old, she felt ecstatic, ten months later - March 25, 1875 gave birth to the South Korean president. Because of Menglong's pregnancy, he was named Li Chenglong, and later because of the 6th generation of the Li family, he had a son in his later years, and was renamed Li Chengwan. Although he was born in an aristocratic background, he grew up in a poor family and among commoners. Since he was a child, he has witnessed the backwardness of North Korea's economy, and since he was a child, he has been determined to reorganize the mountains and rivers. Revitalize the family business. He engaged in anti-propaganda propaganda, went into exile in China, studied in the United States, and became the first American doctor in North Korea. Later, in 1948, he became the president of South Korea under the auspices of the United States. Since then, a complete North Korea has been divided into two halves.

At this time, he expressed great concern about whether China would send troops.

MacArthur confidently told the president: "Dear Mr. President, the possibility of large-scale Chinese intervention is not very large. If they're in the first two months, no! Even if it is the first month of intervention, it will be the force that will decide the fate of North Korea. It's a pity that it doesn't work anymore. Due to the emergence of our powerful American [***] team they lost the opportunity to intervene. We can't find a reason for them to intervene now, which is that if they do, we are no longer afraid of them. We will no longer be afraid. The Chinese had 300,000 troops in Manchuria. Of these, only 100,000 are deployed along the Yalu River, and only 50,000 to 60,000 can cross the river. They don't have an air force, and we have bases in your Korea that can be used by our powerful and invincible air force, and if the Chinese have lived enough and want to commit suicide en masse, we will fulfill them, and then there will be a massacre of the greatest scale in this beautiful land of yours. My dear Mr. President, I really don't want to see that kind of pitiful scene happen."

The South Korean president smiled, laughing happily, and then asked: "My most respected general, what do you think the Soviet Union will do?" Haha, the Soviet reaction was to stay on the sidelines honestly, and they would never send troops to North Korea. After we had two fighter planes attacking the Soviet air base near Vladivostok, 62 miles north of the North Korean border, on October 8, they didn't do much. The USSR was by no means an indisgraceable force."

The president personally opened a bottle of red wine that he had brought specially for the vineyards of Burgundy, France. Pour inside two crystal cups. Then he raised his glass and said, "Cheers to the health of the world's greatest military strategist, the patron saint of our Republic of Korea--- you, my dearest General MacArthur!"

Lieutenant General Stelai watched as two of the most talented actors performed in it. After only one day in Pyongyang, he came to Gimpo Airport to inspect the largest air base of the Far East Air Force on the Korean Peninsula.

Group D also consisted of 6 Flying Leopard bombers and 4 J10 fighters. Their target is Gimpo Airport. Gimpo Airport is only 17 kilometers away from Seoul city and is the busiest airport in the U.S. military. The airport is manned by 33 F80 Thunderbolt bombers of a flying wing of the US Marine Corps and 24 F-51 Mustang fighter-bombers of the 77th Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force. 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing and 474th Interceptor F84 Wing. A total of more than 150 aircraft of all kinds. Around the airfield was stationed 865 anti-aircraft artillery battalion. Armed with 40-mm anti-aircraft guns. and a searchlight company.

At 9:03 a.m., the six planes of Group D were two minutes behind Group 1 when they received an order from Air Police 2000 to "approach the target, be 60 kilometers away from the target, and prepare for an attack." Everyone quickly completed the preparations for the attack. Gimpo Airport is a bit larger than Suwon Airport. There were fifty planes parked in an open-air hangar made of makeshift sandbags. The rest are parked in a mess around the runway. Four searchlights more than 2 meters high and huge pillars of light swept across the airport. Four J10 fighters. Aiming at four searchlights. At a distance of 4000 meters, fire was fired with a 23-mm gun. This was followed by the dropping of 8 cluster bombs over the air defense positions. At this time, there were two F86 fighters. It may be that the enemy's combat-ready plane, which started the engine, began to taxi on the runway one after the other. In a vain attempt to take off. At this time, Wang Wei, the captain of the 1st Destroyer Division, 1st Regiment and 1st Brigade who was on guard in the air. This was detected through the radar. He did not give the enemy the slightest chance, and without hesitation, he launched a PL-9. missile, which accurately hit the cockpit of the first F86 fighter to enter the acceleration phase. Smashed the entire nose into countless pieces. The plane that lost its "head" jumped high and completed its first 360-degree rotation in the air like a strong physical athlete, and the pilot who followed closely behind looked at everything that happened in this moment in horror, and was completely stupid at this time, he pulled the longitudinal rod backwards violently, trying to jump over the long plane that jumped in front of him and tumbled. The unlucky guy in front of him flipped gracefully and reached 450 degrees, and the two planes collided at a distance of 30 meters. The scene was quite spectacular, with a dazzling flash. The fire caused by the fire gave the two brave American soldiers a grand cremation

24 500-kilogram napalm bombs covered the apron and storeroom of the entire airport, and the six JH7 Flying Leopard fighters that attacked the ground this time were all hung on the pylons directly below the fuselage with a multi-use submunition box, which is a kind of submunition thrown from the bomb box, and after the plane returned home, it could be reloaded in the box. Instead of another sub-bomb box used at one time, this type of cartridge box contains many small bomblets in a single magazine. After being dropped from the plane, it descends to a certain altitude, disintegrates under the action of an airburst charge, and drops a submunition.

6 JH7 Flying Leopard fighters were loaded with a total of 24 tons, anti-personnel subbombs. Another terrible thing about this bomb is . Nearly 30 percent of the submunitions do not explode properly after a large number of submunitions are dispersed, and they pose a huge threat to an area of several square kilometers in the years after the explosion. When the 6 HJ7 Flying Leopards dumped all their ammunition. Successfully replicated the same drama as Suwon Airport. It's just amplified. More enthusiastic and crazy than Suwon Airport. Four minutes, just four minutes. This joint [***] in South Korea's largest airport turned into a crematorium for the United [***] aircraft. Five minutes after the air raid, Lieutenant General Stelai, commander of the Far East Air Force, walked out of the basement of Gimpo Airport. What should come into his eyes is a real version of purgatory on earth. The scorching air contains a lot of toxic smoke. The entire airport was burning, and the explosions in the fire were heard one after another, pushing this human tragedy to the ground. and corpses lying on their backs and lying in incomplete postures and still burning. The wounded struggled in pain. Letting out a wail, Stelle, who was the commander of the Army Air Force of the Indo-Burma Theater and the commander of the Army Air Force in China during World War II. I've never seen anything like this; He wanted to do his best to help the people who were struggling and howling in the fire, but he knew that the only thing he could do now was watch them slowly burn to carbon. Lieutenant General Stelai is usually a kind-looking and funny university professor. The doctor repeatedly reminded him that his heart was no longer suitable for military work, that he should not have too many mood swings, and that his heart could no longer bear this kind of torture. Lieutenant General Stelai himself is well aware of this. He is a well-cultivated man, gentle, not easily angered, and he is confident in controlling his emotions. But at this time, he couldn't control his emotions anymore, he looked at the frightened people running around in the fire, and the entire burning airport, and he tried his best to organize the panicked people to save themselves. But the excitement and the scorching poisonous smoke made it impossible for him to save himself. He slowly fell to the ground with his hands pressed to his heart in pain. When his assistant ran up and turned Stremen over. Seeing this general, his usually neat and meticulous hair was stained with his own vomit, and his body was sweating profusely and had entered a state of shock. He hurriedly shouted for the doctor, but the doctor who came at this time. He stood up and went around looking for medical staff, but there was no doctor at this time. When he caught a panicked sanitary soldier coming to the place where Sterley was lying again, he pulled a shivering sanitary soldier out of nowhere. The poor health soldier used his trembling hands to find that he had stopped breathing when he pulled his mouth open with great difficulty. According to the statistical method of the U.S. military, the direct casualties not caused by the enemy are not included in the battle damage, so the death of General Sterley is not included in the battle damage statistics of the casualties in this battle. Nor does it enjoy the "martyr" treatment of the United States . Only enjoy the treatment of work-related injuries and fatalities. Unlike China, as long as they are killed or injured in the war, no matter how they are killed or injured, even if they freeze to death, starve to death, die of disease, walk with broken feet, fall and knock out teeth, and the probability is classified as war injury and death. Therefore, the statistical methods of the two are different, and the statistical results will be very different.