Chapter 34: Operation Nest Smashing - Attack on Suwon
The maritime part of Operation Nest Smashing was a great success.
The campaign eliminated two naval detachments sent by the U.S. Navy to participate in the Korean War.
One is located on the eastern side of the peninsula in East Korea Bay. Task Force 77 consists of two large aircraft carriers, USS Angie Valley and USS Boxer, and the escort aircraft carrier USS Peden Strait. Two large aircraft carriers were sunk and one escort aircraft carrier was shipped
237 carrier-based aircraft
Naval aviation annihilated: 7,700.
The other is deployed in the Yellow Sea, the Korean Peninsula, and the West Korean Gulf. The 95th escort blockade detachment consisting of the large aircraft carrier "Philippines" and the escort aircraft carrier "Sicily".
One large aircraft carrier was sunk and one escort aircraft carrier was shipped
134 enemy carrier-based aircraft were destroyed
4,500 enemy aviation units were destroyed
In total, three large aircraft carriers and two escort aircraft carriers were destroyed
371 carrier-based aircraft
Enemy killed: 12,000 people.
When the first batch of 6 JH7 Flying Leopard fighters and 4 J10 fighters of Group A led by Wu Di took off, Group C consisted of 6 JH7 Flying Leopard bomber fighters and 4 J10 fighters also took off. These 6 JH7 Flying Leopard fighters are not carrying C803 missiles, but a large sub-bomb box on the pylon in the middle of the body. Four pylons on both sides were hung with 500 kg napalm, and one PL-9/9C air-to-air missile was hung on each side of the outermost wings for self-defense, with a bomb load of more than 6 tons. The four J10 fighters used for air alert are hung with PL-9 and PL12 air-to-air near-long-range missiles, and four 250-3 aircraft sub-carrier missiles are also hung.
Their target was located in the middle of the west bank of the Korean Peninsula, at 37 degrees north latitude. Suwon Airport at 127 degrees east longitude. It is the main base of the 5th Air Force of the US Air Force invading North Korea, where more than 100 F-86 and F-94 fighters and F-84 fighter-bombers are deployed on both sides of the runway. The airfield was defended by units of the 7th Division of the US Army. In order to ensure the safety of Suwon Airport, the US Air Force has deployed a radar warning network, and an antiaircraft artillery battalion with 40-mm antiaircraft guns has been deployed around the airport.
Participated in the attack on Suwon airfield D1 Army Group C. Under the leadership of Liu Yingtian, commander of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Division of the J-H, he made a sortie to Suwon Airport. They use a three-redundancy, three-axis stabilized, digital-analog hybrid automatic flight control system to fly over the rolling mountains in the middle of the night. At 8:58 p.m. On the multifunctional monochrome LCD display of each aircraft, the command of the Air Police 2000 was received to "approach the target, be 60 kilometers away from the target, and prepare for an attack". They flew at an ultra-low altitude of 200 meters in a valley and quickly approached Suwon Airport. Attack targets according to the pre-assigned aircraft. Two minutes later, six JH7 Flying Leopard fighters appeared over Suwon Airport and entered the attack position. Four J10s with a minute ago. It took the lead in thoroughly cleaning up the four antiaircraft artillery positions set up around the airfield, and each J10 was hung with four 250-3 aircraft sub-carrier bombs, and saturation strikes were carried out at each antiaircraft artillery position, and 300,000 small steel balls covered every corner of the enemy's antiaircraft artillery positions and searchlight positions.
The Suwon airfield was quiet at night, and the enemy did not feel the slightest danger of imminent danger. On both sides of the runway, which is less than 700 meters, there are about 100 US planes of all kinds parked densely and quietly.
In the duty room of the prefabricated room, Major Mack and Captain Iverson were talking about the war.
"Major Mack, I heard that there is a squadron in North Korea?" Iverson asked, puffing on a smoke ring.
"According to the intelligence agency, the northern field forces under the command of General Lin B of China may have entered northern Korea," Mike said nonchalantly as he took a sip of freshly brewed coffee.
Iverson then asked his own question: "But our daily aerial reconnaissance has not found any signs of large troop movements. There is only a rout of Kim Yuecheng's army and a large number of refugees who have fled north in North Korea."
"Hmph, who knows if this is said by the intelligence services, how doubtful is the real surname? I'm just trying to end this boring war sooner rather than later. I don't want to stay in this dirty place for a minute longer because it smells of feces. Mike said uninterested.
Iverson was very amused and said, "Major Mack, it's understandable that you want to stay here. But if we do not completely defeat the [***] army here and allow North Korea's [***] aggression to succeed, it will be the greatest shame for our entire free world. will undermine our leadership in the world. ”.
Mike squinted at Iverson and said sarcastically, "Haha. Captain Iverson, you don't want to run for the 34th president of the United States with General Eisenhower, a five-star general in the Army, do you? If not. Who wins and who loses here has nothing to do with ordinary people like you and me".
6 HJ7 Flying Leopard fighter-bomb planes, two for a combat formation, have climbed to an altitude of about 1,000 meters above the ground, successively two as a group, dive bombing the airport, the first crew of the two JH7 Flying Leopards one after the other, along both sides of the runway, facing the parked aircraft, opened the sub-bomb box and instantly dropped 4 tons of sub-bombs, and then the second group and the first group also dropped 8 tons of sub-bombs, bombardment...... Rumble...... Each submunition split out of 150 bullets into a piece, each bullet split out of hundreds of steel balls, suddenly more than 100 planes were hit with a thousand holes, the next group dropped eight 500 kilograms of napalm, dropped napalm everywhere splashed oil blocks instantly turned the less than 700 meters long, less than 60 meters wide 42,000 square meters of the airport into a sea of fire. The explosions of one plane after another intensified the spread of the fire. Then these JH7 Flying Leopard bomber planes drew a very beautiful small arc in the air and turned back. Another 16 napalm of 500 kg and 4 tons of cluster bombs were dropped on the oil depots, ammunition depots, barracks tents, and material storage points at the airfield. Six JH7 Flying Leopard bomber planes completed this unscrupulous bombing in only 5 minutes. A saturation strike to the airfield targets in the fullest. It is not difficult to imagine what it would be like to drop 24 500-kilogram napalm and 24-ton submunitions on an area of only 42,000 square meters, that is, less than the size of six football fields, in just 5 minutes.
The bombardment of such intensity was absolutely unprecedented, the entire airfield was in a raging fire, reflecting the dark night sky, in the fire the planes constantly exploded, and the wreckage and fragments of the planes were thrown high into the air with the fire. The air defense positions and in the barracks were full of US officers and soldiers killed and wounded by cluster bombs and then ignited by napalm." "This time also made the old beauties really enjoy the feeling of being ravaged by cluster bombs and napalm."
Groups of American officers and soldiers sprang out of the burning barracks and tents, their bodies like a flaming torch. Throwing out the fire on his body indiscriminately, he let out a heart-rending scream. These people were rolling on the ground in despair, trying to extinguish the fire on their bodies, some even shouted to their comrades and companions to plead for help to end their suffering, Captain Iverson was hit on the left shoulder by a steel ball, he was half-lying on the ground, leaning against the wall of the room, his flight boots were splashed with napalm, and the pain stacked up and down made him feel painful, and he looked in the same room, there was a pilot whose whole body was on fire, rolling on the floor of the duty room, and he ignited everywhere he rolled, Then he staggered to his feet, took two steps, and finally fell on his legs, and Iverson kicked him desperately to get him away from him, but Iverson's feet and legs were already stained with napalm and ignited, and he angrily pulled out his pistol, and hysterically shot at his companion until he ran out of ammunition in the magazine. Then he threw his gun on the ground, stared blankly at the fire that filled the house, and laughed out loud. He was crazy and scared crazy. He stood up and staggered out of the burning duty room. He had no pain, no fear. He sang loudly: "Helaythererolling'roundinthewww.xstxt.orgpnomore. (He doesn't have to jump anymore)
This song was widely sung among Allied paratroopers in Europe during World War II. The rhythm is steady and the melody is high. With a bit of tragedy, he ended his life's swan song, fell to the ground, and lay there motionless, becoming a burning fire.
Many more witnessed the horrific sight of those on fire rolling on the ground, screaming for help. But there was nothing he could do, he turned his face away in pain, squatted on the ground and covered his ears, never wanting to hear the terrible cry again. Some of them ran around in a frenzied manner without an aim, shouting and screaming.
Major Mack is a pilot with more than 2,500 hours of flight time, he has dropped this napalm on the enemy countless times, but he never thought that one day he would be killed by it, when he heard the first explosion and threw away the coffee cup in his hand, the first rushed out of the duty room, ran to his F-94 fighter, he just ran to his plane, two steel balls hit his waist and shoulder, he felt a great pain from the liver area, he fell next to the plane, Then he felt a flash of light in front of him and a wave of heat rushing towards him, and he immediately felt a fierce fire. He wanted to stand up, but the pain in his waist and back made him stop this stupid action, and he couldn't help rolling on the ground a few times, and the fire was not only not small at all, but burned even brighter. He knew he was finished. He didn't want to be burned alive. He gritted his teeth and pulled out his pistol with the last of his will. With difficulty, he pushed the bullet into his load, put the gun against his right temple and fired a shot
The bombed oil depot was on fire, the flames were 100 meters high, and thick smoke hung over the airport. The detonated ammunition continued to spread to the periphery, sending out more and more violent explosions, and the aerial bombs flew sideways in all directions irregularly, and the napalm that was like a gas tank was blown up high. The explosion in the air further expanded the fire and aggravated the fire
The fire that lasted for the next two days reduced everything to ashes at Suwon Airport.