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INDEX
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A-frame carriers, 122–23
Aid, Matthew, 95
Air Force Historical Research Agency, 55
Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), 34, 41–42, 50, 149–50, 185
Air Force Security Service, 85–86
Air Force Special Operations Command, 10
Air Medal, 73
Air Research and Development Command, 113
Air Technical Intelligence Center, 112–13
Air University Press, 9
air war, 9, 98–99, 134–35, 144
Alsop, Joseph, 51–52
American Caesar (Manchester), 51
American occupation of Japan, 16, 18, 25, 53
American occupation of Korea, 24–26, 28–30
anti-American anger, 28–30
Rhee’s return to South Korea, 35–39
withdrawal of forces, 44–45, 53–54
Anderson, Samuel E., 133
Apocalypse Now (movie), 8, 117–18
Arab revolt, 15
Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), 83
Army, U.S.
Counter Intelligence Corps, 1, 22, 28–29, 30, 38, 71
Korean assignments, 18
Korean War, 53–54, 74, 78
Nichols in, 1, 3, 4, 20–22
Army Air Corps, U.S., 42, 57
Army military government in Korea. See American occupation of Korea
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 122
Autumn Harvest Uprising, 29–30
Bando Hotel, 158
Banfill, Charles Y., 86
Bataan Gang, 52
Batten, J. O., 185, 188
Battle of Chosin Reservoir, 96–97
Battle of Inchon, 87, 88, 96, 125, 126, 130
Battle of Pusan Perimeter, 81–82, 86–89
Battle of the Bulge, 44
Bauer, Russell, 49–50, 84
Bierek, William V., 153, 158, 213n
Bigart, Homer, 97
Blair House, 67
Block, Irwin J., 179–81, 238n
Bodo League massacre, 6–7, 77–80, 186, 211–12n, 224–25n
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses, 58
Boeing B-29 Superfortresses, 72–73, 94, 98, 110, 118
Bradley, Omar N., 53
Bright Shining Lie, A (Sheehan), 192–93
British Royal Navy, 112
Bronze Star, 222n
Brooks, Preston, 182
Brooksville, Florida, 182–87
Brooksville Cemetery, 192, 196–98
Brooksville Daily Sun-Journal, 189
Brooksville Printing, 184
Broward County Courthouse, 175, 196
Brownie (dog), 72, 148
“bug out fever,” 87
Burma, 1, 21
Butterfingers, 3
Caldwell, Alicia, 189
Carlin, Diana, 7, 131, 177, 178, 180
Cavett, Dick, 164
Center of Military History, 78
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 2
Center for the Study of Intelligence, 90
during Korean War, 5, 78, 91–92, 94, 95, 97, 100
North Korea’s military buildup and intelligence failures, 60–61
Rhee and, 32, 38, 153–54, 155
waterboarding, 40
Cheju Island, 57, 99
Cheju uprising, 39, 57, 218n
Chevrolet Bel Air, 171–72
China
during Korean War, 94–99, 119, 125, 130
armistice, 123, 137–39
Opium Wars, 29
Cho Bang-am, 154–55
Cho Boo-yi, 44
cholera, 28
Chongchon River, 102
Chong-Sik Lee, 128
Chosun Dynasty, 36
Cho Yong Il, 83–86
Chung Bong-sun, 3, 33, 104, 151
CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 20
Clark, Mark, 138
Class C spies, 116–17
Coca-Cola, 3, 133, 171
Colleen’s Coffee Shop, 177
Collins, Tom, 135
Communism in Korea (Scalapino and Lee), 128
Communist Party of Korea, 28–29, 30, 39
Congressional Medal of Honor, 51
Conrad, Joseph, 8
Cook, Eugene G., 128
counterfeit currency, 111, 150–51
Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC), 1, 22, 28–29, 30, 38, 71
Country Club Estates, 173, 175, 176, 180
Crabb, Jarred, 66
Cumings, Bruce, 37
Cuneo, Ronald F., 148
Dae-Sook Suh, 126
Dai-Ichi Seimei Building, 51, 95
Dandong airfield, 135
Dean, Raymond, 148
Democratic Youth Alliance, 28–29
Detachment 2 of 6004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron, 99–100, 104–8, 110–13, 144–45
Dille, John, 9
Distinguished Flying Cross, 73
Distinguished Service Cross, 5–6, 103
Donner, Francesca, 42, 103
Dulles, Allen, 153
Dulles, John Foster, 138
Dunn, Frank L., 146–49, 153
Duvall, Robert, 117–18
dysentery, 1, 21, 82
Eagleton, Thomas, 169
Edwards, Bob E., 49, 225n
Eglin Air Force Base Hospital, 7, 160–67, 172
Eighth United States Army
Korean War, 81–85, 89, 90, 95, 96, 130
Battle of Pusan Perimeter, 81–82, 86–89
post–Korean War, 103, 109–10
Eisenhower, Dwight, 137–39, 153
electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT), 163
electroshock treatments, 7, 8, 162–67
Emas, Kevin, 238n
Evanhoe, Ed, 18, 100, 151
executions, 6, 40–41, 49–50
F-86 Sabres, 98, 102–3, 113
Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcars, 102
Far East Air Forces (FEAF)
before Korean War, 45, 46, 48, 50–51, 219n
Korean War, 4–6, 65, 68, 72–73, 98, 103, 120, 122
napalm use, 118–19, 120
post–Korean War, 143, 145, 146
Far East Command, 54, 59, 68, 97, 101, 149
Farmers’ Union of Korea, 28–29
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 4, 176, 178, 238n
Fehrenbach, T. R., 82, 88–89
Fifth Air Force, 56–57
Korean War, 84–85, 86, 93–94, 100, 112, 114