workingclasshistory:

On this day, 26 July 1950, the No Gun Ri massacre took place, when the US military murdered up to 400 South Korean civilians, in one of the biggest mass killings by US forces. A large group of refugees were travelling south after being ordered to leave their villages by US troops, consisting primarily of women, children and the elderly. First they were strafed by US military aircraft, possibly killing around 100, then as they sought refuge under a bridge ground troops attacked for three nights. One GI, Norman Tinkler, later reported to the Associated Press “We just annihilated them”; another, Hermann Patterson, recalled “It was just wholesale slaughter”. One of the survivors, Chung Koo-ho, later recounted her experiences:“People pulled dead bodies around them for protection… Mothers wrapped their children with blankets and hugged them with their backs toward the entrances… My mother died on the second day of shooting.”
Pictured: A re-enactment of the incident for the 2009 film, A Little Pond. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1485037661681379/?type=3