creation of air force, 42–44
Korean War, 6, 72, 103–4, 105, 137, 194–95
Nichols’s dismissal from Korea, 152–53, 155–56
personal request as advisor, 42–43, 45
post–Korean War, 137, 139
personality of, 36
presidency of, 2, 6–7, 10, 37–42, 144, 146, 153–55
Cheju uprising, 39, 57, 218n
Cho affair, 154–55
political repression, 37–42, 57
return to Korea and rise to power, 35–39
presidential election of 1952, 103–4, 153
presidential election of 1956, 153–55
Ridgway, Matthew B., 95–96, 109–10, 118–19
Rodong Sinmun, 124–25
Roosevelt, Franklin, 20
Rowe, Kenneth (No Kum Sok), 132–37, 233n
St. Petersburg Times, 188, 189
Salvation Army, 19
San Diego County Jail, 178
San Diego Union, 178
Sariego, Jack A., 108, 229n
Scalapino, Robert, 128
schizophrenia, 11, 159–60, 162, 166, 173–74, 196
Scripps Howard, 68
segregation, 182–84
Seoul, during Korean War, 69–72, 99
beginning of war, 66–67
Seoul National University, 154
sex slaves, 23
“shack girls,” 18
Sheehan, Neil, 192–93
Shorter, Edward, 165–66
Silver Star, 74, 75, 101
Simpson, O’Wighton D., 72, 85
Sinanju airfield, 94
607th Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC), 28–29
6002nd Air Intelligence Group, 146, 149
6004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron (AISS), 2, 5, 99–100, 104–8, 110–13, 114, 144–45, 157–58
6006th Air Intelligence Service Squadron, 145, 157–58
6407th Air Force Hospital (Tachikawa, Japan), 158–60, 161
Soldier’s Medal, 73
South Korea
anti-American anger in, 28–30
guerrilla war, 38–42, 49–50
history of, 22–28
during Korean War. See also Korean War
armistice, 137–39
Taejon massacre, 6–7, 77–80, 211–12n, 224–25n
Nichols’s arrival in, 22–23, 28–29
political repression of Rhee, 37–42
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 33, 78
World War II, 22–23
South Korean National Police, 49
South Korean Order of Military Merit, 90, 154, 227n
Soviet Union
death of Stalin, 123
during Korean War, 45, 67, 98, 119, 135
armistice, 123, 137–39
civilian deaths, 16
launch, 16
Moscow Trials, 125–26
North Korea and, 16, 23–24, 26–28
World War II, 23–24
Spaight, J. M., 118
Stalin, Joseph, 24, 26, 27, 45, 88, 93, 123
State of Florida v. Donald Nichols, 180, 238n
Steel, Ronald, 8
stovepiping, 100
Stratemeyer, George E., 4, 32, 46, 58, 73, 90, 97
Stueck, William, 16, 52
Suiho Dam attack, 121–22
Summer of Terror (1950), 6–7, 76–80
Sumner, Charles, 182
Suwon, 70, 72–73, 77, 186
Swengel, Nora Mae, 19, 170–73, 214n
T-34 tanks, 65, 87, 88, 119
Nichols’s salvage operation, 73–76, 101–2
Taegu, 82–83, 85–86, 130
Taegu Riot, 29–30
Taejon massacre, 6–7, 77–80, 186, 211–12n, 224–25n
Taiwan, 138
thirty-eighth parallel, 24, 26, 45, 65
This Kind of War (Fehrenbach), 82, 88–89
Thorazine, 7, 159–60, 162, 168
Torres, Serbando J.
background of, 42
before Korean War, 42, 49–50
during Korean War, 70–72, 106, 148
codebreaking, 83, 84, 89–90
Pusan Perimeter, 82
Taejon massacre, 77–78, 80
post–Korean War, 183–84
personal life of Nichols, 130–31
torture, 5, 40–41, 49, 194
Truman, Harry S.
before Korean War, 25, 38, 45
North Korea’s military buildup, 52–54, 56
during Korean War, 94–95, 96, 98, 109, 119
beginning of war, 66–69
firing of MacArthur, 100–101
MacArthur and, 51, 52–54, 96, 100–101
XXIV Corps, U.S., 24
United Nations Security Council, authorization of force, 67
University of Delaware, 136
University of Toronto, 166
Van Fleet, James, 103
Vann, John Paul, 192–93
Veterans Administration Medical Center (Tuscaloosa), 190–91
Vietnam War, 8, 118, 122, 193
Volusia County Schools, 170
Walker, Walton “Johnnie,” 81–82
background of, 81
during Korean War, 96, 97
codebreaking, 84–85
military intelligence, 89–90
Pusan Perimeter, 81–82, 87–89
Washington Post, 132
waterboarding, 40
Western Union, 164–65
Weyland, Otto P., 122, 136
Willoughby, Charles A., 50–56
background of, 52
burning of intelligence records, 59–60
intelligence failures, 52–54, 60–61, 66, 94, 97, 101
during Korean War, 95, 97, 101
MacArthur and, 51–54, 101
Nichols and, 50, 53, 54–56, 59, 61, 92
Muccio’s letter, 55–56, 221n
North Korea’s military buildup, 52–54, 56, 66
Winslow, Frank, 150–51
Wisner, Frank, 100
Wolf, Myra, 3, 18–21, 197
Woolnough, James K., 89
Workers’ Party of South Korea, 28, 29, 30, 127, 134
World War I, 15–17, 57
World War II, 8, 122
Japan and, 8, 22–23, 118, 122, 134
attack on Pearl Harbor, 20–21
napalm use, 118
Nichols and, 20–21
Partridge and, 57–58
postwar life, 17–18
South Korea and, 22–23
Soviet Union and, 23–24
Walker and, 81
Wright, W. H. S., 217n, 221n
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 112–13
Wyatt, Steve, 184, 186
Yakovlev Yak-18s, 145
Yalu River, 93, 95, 98, 121–22
Yang Bok-cheon, 39
Yeager, Chuck, 135
Yi Chun-yong, 78
Yi Kang Guk, 126
Yi Sung Yop, 126
Yongmae Island, 114
Yoon Il-gyun, 75–76, 102, 239n
Yoonjung Seo, 232n
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BLAINE HARDEN has served as the Washington Post’s bureau chief in northeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa. He was a national correspondent for the New York Times and has contributed to the Economist, PBS’s Frontline, Time, and Foreign Policy. He is the author of The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot; Escape from Camp 14, an international bestseller that has been published in twenty-eight languages; A River Lost; and Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile
Continent, which won a PEN American Center citation for a first book of nonfiction.
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