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by Jack Cheevers


  Karl, Glenn A., 257

  Katzenbach, Nicholas, 4, 229, 253–54, 255–56, 259–61, 308

  Kell, Chief Petty Officer Jim, 188, 189, 192, 194–95, 205, 206, 213, 218, 219, 313–15

  Kennedy, Henry H., Jr., 379

  Kennedy, John F., 105, 158

  Kennedy, Robert F., 224, 253

  Keys, Captain James E., 294–95, 299, 326

  Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, 107, 113

  Killion, Dalton V., 258

  Kilpatrick, James J., 281

  Kim Ch’ang Bong, North Korean Defense Minister, 178

  Kim Il Sung, 55, 56, 87, 93, 107, 109–10, 113–15, 118, 128, 152–55, 161, 163, 168, 170–72, 174, 176–78, 203–4, 226, 229, 233, 239, 241, 256, 341

  Kim Jong-un, 4, 376

  Kim Shin-jo, Second Lieutenant, 55, 57

  Kim Song-eun, South Korean Defense Minister, 171, 172, 200

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 188–89, 197

  King Kong (North Korean duty officer), 208–9

  Kisler, CT Earl, 216, 219, 236, 283

  Kissinger, Henry, 340

  Kofoed, Jack, 304

  Komar-class guided missile patrol boats, 114

  Korean Central News Agency, 146

  Korean Task Force, 127–29, 157

  Korean War, 3, 17, 22, 36, 55, 89, 100, 106, 113, 115, 117, 134, 152–55, 159, 163, 191, 192, 200, 241, 246, 261, 292, 366, 369

  Korean Workers’ Party, 203

  Kosygin, Aleksey, 118, 166, 177

  Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, 124

  Kuril islands, 2

  Kuznetsov, Vasily, 228–29

  KW-7 code machine, 40–41, 319–21

  KWR-37 code machine, 319–21

  Kyushu island, 44, 45, 50, 221

  Lacy, Chief Engineer Gene, 12, 15–17, 23, 54, 59, 60, 62, 64, 65, 70–72, 76, 92, 123, 209, 216, 219, 269, 273, 298, 323, 349, 357–58

  Laird, Melvin, 303, 305

  Langenberg, CT Peter, 20, 21, 24, 76–77, 186, 193, 323

  Laos, 201

  Law, Quartermaster Charles, 33, 45, 49–50, 52, 60–62, 67, 68, 190, 194, 205, 208, 210, 215, 217–19, 221, 236, 244, 245, 247–50, 265, 268, 283, 313, 323–24, 328, 329, 349, 356, 358

  Lawrence, James, 287

  Layton, Jim, 67, 68

  Lee, Captain Kent, 78, 165–66

  Lee, Richard C., 303

  Leonard, Eleanor, 260

  Leonard, James, 256, 260

  Lerner, Max, 302

  Lewis, Cook Harry, 51, 181, 193, 328

  Little Iodine (North Korean nurse), 190, 216

  Lockheed, 114

  “Lonely Bull, The,” 16, 21, 44, 277, 297

  Los Angeles Times, 288, 303

  Major Rectum (North Korean officer), 263

  Mao Zedong, 152

  Mariana islands, 30

  Martin, Lionel, 221–23

  Marx, Karl, 192, 210

  Massie, Machinist’s Mate William T., 377–79

  Mavroules, Nicholas, 369–70, 372

  Max (North Korean translator), 85, 87, 88, 96

  Mayang-do, North Korea, 48, 53

  McCarthy, Eugene, 224

  McClarren, CT Don, 75, 286, 377, 379

  McClintock, CT Ralph, 222, 265, 268–69

  McGonagle, Captain William, 14

  McKee, Lieutenant General Seth, 79–81, 89, 110–11, 346–47

  McNamara, Robert, 105–6, 110–12, 115, 116, 125, 126, 162, 166–67

  Medal of Honor, 338

  Meeker, Leonard, 111

  Meredith, James, 253

  Miami Herald, 304

  Midway Island, 275

  MiG fighters, 1, 4–5, 54, 64, 66, 68, 78, 81, 90, 108, 110, 111, 114, 115, 128, 153, 298, 300, 339

  Military Armistice Commission (MAC), 158, 159, 257

  Milwaukee Sentinel, 109

  Miramar Naval Air Station, San Diego, 276–77

  Mister Roberts (movie), 91

  Mitchell, Fireman John, 185, 219, 367

  Mitchell, General Billy, 290

  Miyamoto, Kenji, 258

  Montgomery, Sonny, 368

  Moorer, Admiral Thomas, 13, 282, 294, 303, 305, 306, 342, 344, 351

  Mukho, South Korea, 128

  Mullin, John, 24, 25

  Mundt, Karl, 126

  Munpyong Ni, North Korea, 128

  Murphy, Lieutenant Edward R., Jr., 15, 23, 26–28, 33, 39, 41, 42, 46–47, 53, 62, 63, 65, 68–69, 71, 72, 98, 146, 179, 181, 190, 209, 212, 213, 217, 219, 221, 229, 240–41, 243, 245, 264, 265, 269, 273, 279, 282, 286, 298, 306, 328–31, 348–51, 356–57, 367

  Najin, North Korea, 204

  Napoleonic Wars, 126

  National Security Agency (NSA), 9–10, 31, 38, 47, 63, 198, 285, 286, 307, 316–21, 340, 342–45

  National Security Council, 303 Committee of, 307–8, 342

  Naval Amphibious School, Coronado Island, 291

  Naval History magazine, 364–65

  Naval Intelligence Command, 285

  Naval Investigative Service, 122–23, 198, 296

  Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, 355, 356

  Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps, 36

  Naval Security Group, 10, 38, 286, 316

  Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, 11, 30, 122

  Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC), 155, 157, 158

  New York Daily News, 109

  New York Post, 304

  New York Times, The, 163, 233, 245, 256, 281, 305, 358

  Newsome, William, 289–91, 296, 299, 301–3, 325, 328, 336, 347, 350, 357

  Newsweek magazine, 219, 316

  Nike-Hercules missile sites, 125

  Nitze, Paul, 308

  Nixon, Richard M., 225, 261, 305, 339–41, 351, 352

  Noland, Bruce, 257–59

  North Korea, 31, 32, 37

  attacks on South Korean fishing boats, 309

  China and, 118, 153

  coastal defenses of, 47

  DMZ (demilitarized zone), 42, 57, 58, 107, 114, 126, 128, 129, 154, 155, 159, 171, 226, 309

  “electronic order of battle,” 40

  ex-Pueblo sailors suit against, 377–79

  fishing industry in, 255–56

  guerrilla attack on Seoul, 55–58

  hatred of America, 152

  infiltration of South Korea, 55–58, 80, 110, 115, 128, 153–54, 156, 157, 165, 167, 170–72, 174, 198–99, 225, 226, 255, 309, 311

  MiG fighters of, 1, 4–5, 54, 64, 66, 68, 78, 81, 90, 108, 110, 111, 114, 115, 128, 153, 298, 300, 339

  nuclear weapons and, 4, 374–76

  on red alert, 151–52

  seizure of USS Pueblo (see USS Pueblo)

  shoot-down of EC-121 reconnaissance plane, 339–41

  Soviet Union and, 152, 153, 177–78, 204, 340

  twentieth anniversary as nation, 233

  U.S. forces buildup and, 125, 166

  North Korean Army Chorus, 240

  North Korean 124th Army Unit, 55–57

  O’Bannon, Fireman Michael, 187

  Odd Job (North Korean colonel), 244, 247–50, 266, 267, 283

  Okinawa, 81, 110, 112, 114, 202, 293, 306, 346, 347

  Operation Clickbeetle, 3, 10, 30, 31

  Operation Sea Dragon, 116

  Osan Air Base, South Korea, 80, 81, 89–91, 111, 124, 347

  Ottinger, Richard, 303

  Pak Chung Kuk, Major General, 155–60, 198, 228, 230–35, 254, 261, 262, 265–68

  Panama, 169

  Panmunjom, secret negotiations at, 155–62, 168, 170, 172, 174, 177, 178, 189, 198, 199, 212, 218, 225, 227–29, 231–35, 253–55, 257–62

  Parade mag
azine, 327

  Park Chung Hee, President, 55, 57, 115, 120, 128, 156, 157, 162–65, 168–77, 196–203, 225–27, 230, 232, 234, 240, 255, 340

  PCE 56 (South Korean patrol boat), 309, 310, 312, 343

  Pearl Harbor, 22, 23, 290, 293

  Peppard, CT Donald, 216, 219, 314

  Petropavlovsk, Russia, 1–2

  Philippines, 37

  Phoenix Gazette, 304

  Pihos, Pete, 35

  Pike, Otis, 341–45, 347

  Playboy magazine, 237

  Plucker, Quartermaster Alvin, 374

  Poland, 155

  Pope, Barbara, 372

  Porter, William, 156–58, 160, 162, 167, 168–69, 200, 227, 232, 234, 235, 256, 275, 340

  Possum (North Korean room daddy), 191, 192, 210, 250–51, 283

  Pratt, Rear Admiral Richard, 293, 329, 331–32, 350

  Presidential elections

  1964, 105, 107

  1968, 224, 261

  Prisoner of War Medal, 366–72

  Pueblo, Colorado, 337–38, 374–75

  Puget Sound, 12

  Pyongyang, North Korea, 92–93, 151, 178, 373

  Raborn, Admiral William, 288

  Ravens, 2

  Rawlings, Bob, 375

  RB-29 reconnaissance aircraft, 1

  RB-47 reconnaissance aircraft, 309, 312, 343

  RC-135 spy plane, 4–5

  Reagan, Ronald, 225, 278, 369

  Reuther, Walter, 191

  Richardson, Bill, 375

  Rigby, Ship’s Storekeeper Dale, 181, 183, 210

  Ritter, CT David, 259

  Ritter, Elizabeth and Caspar, 259–60

  Rivers, Mendel, 340

  Robot (North Korean room daddy), 190–91, 219, 221–23, 243, 282

  Rodman, Dennis, 376

  Rooney, Mickey, 35

  Rosales, Seaman Ramon, 217, 244, 328–29

  Rosenberg, Admiral Edwin, 273–75, 290

  Rostow, Walt, 105, 108, 119, 156, 275, 308

  Rusk, Dean, 105, 106, 112, 113, 116, 160, 181, 228–29, 253, 260, 281

  Russell, Richard, 281–82

  Russell, Seaman Stu, 145, 194, 206, 208, 215–16, 240, 241, 286, 367, 371

  Ryan, General John, 346

  Sabatini, Rafael, 35

  Sachon River, 261

  St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 281

  Salisbury, Harrison, 257

  San Diego naval base, 14–15, 18–19

  San Diego Union, 282, 371

  Sasebo naval base, Japan, 44–46, 48, 77, 78

  Saturday Evening Post, 301

  Scar (North Korean colonel), 85–87, 146–48

  Scarborough, Engineman William, 328

  Schumacher, Ensign F. Carl “Skip,” 7–8, 15–17, 19–21, 28, 33, 39, 42, 44, 51–54, 61–63, 65, 66, 70, 71, 76, 77, 92, 93, 98, 137–38, 145, 146, 148, 186–88, 190, 209, 212, 215, 237, 248, 264, 269, 273, 279, 283, 284, 313, 323, 349, 356, 362, 366, 370

  Sea of Japan, 1, 2, 5, 8, 30, 32, 41, 50, 53, 59, 106, 108, 113, 124, 166, 307, 308, 339, 341

  Second in Command (Murphy), 357

  Senate Armed Services Committee, 167, 215, 282

  Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 126

  Seoul, South Korea, 55–57

  Sharp, Admiral Ulysses S. Grant, 81, 166, 307, 342, 344–47

  Sheck, Eugene, 343–44

  Shepard, CT Jim, 216

  Shingleton, Seaman John, 206

  Siberia, 2

  Sidey, Hugh, 121

  Silver Lips (North Korean translator), 147, 180, 188, 243, 247, 249, 356

  Sinchon, North Korea, 241–43

  Situation report (SITREP), 55, 59, 63, 65

  Six-Day War of 1967, 13–14, 200

  Slatinshek, Frank, 346, 347

  Smith, General Holland M. “Howlin’ Mad,” 158

  Smith, Marion, 160–61

  Smith, Rear Admiral John Victor, 158–61, 198, 227, 228, 233

  Snake (North Korean duty officer), 209

  Solomatin, Boris, 321

  Songjin, North Korea, 52, 53

  South Korea, 42

  communist infiltration of, 55–58, 80, 110, 115, 128, 153–54, 156, 157, 165, 167, 170–72, 174, 198–99, 225, 226, 255, 309, 311

  covert counterattacks by, 171

  DMZ (demilitarized zone), 42, 57, 58, 107, 114, 126, 128, 129, 154, 155, 159, 171, 226, 309

  Japan, relations with, 163, 165

  Park’s leadership of, 162–65

  Pueblo seizure, reaction to, 161–62

  troops in Vietnam, 110, 156, 157, 165, 168, 173, 196, 198, 201–2, 227

  U.S. force buildup and, 124–25

  U.S. military aid to, 157, 163, 164, 168, 171, 177, 200, 202, 203

  U.S. troops in, 4, 97, 107, 115, 125, 164, 199, 255, 310

  Vance visit to, 169–77

  South Korean Air Force, 80–81

  South Pacific islands, 7

  Soviet Union, 10

  airpower, 1, 2, 125

  naval operations, 1, 2, 30–32, 37, 48, 124–25, 320

  North Korea and, 152, 153, 177–78, 204, 340

  Pueblo seizure and, 109–10, 113, 118–19, 177, 228–29, 318, 322

  Vietnam War and, 201

  Walker spy ring and, 320–22

  Spaulding, Captain Raymond, 283–84, 363

  Special Operations Department (“SOD hut”), 11, 20 (see also CTs)

  Specs (North Korean room daddy), 191

  Stalin, Joseph, 152, 192

  Staring, Rear Admiral Merlin, 352–53

  State, U.S. Department of, 17, 160, 224, 230–34, 256, 259, 262, 266, 307

  Bureau of Intelligence and Research, 118

  Steakley, General Ralph, 342

  Sterling, CT Charles, 187

  Stethem, Robert, 379

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 35

  Strano, CT Angelo, 206, 210, 213, 244

  Strategic Air Command, 107–8

  Stratton, Samuel, 305

  Strickland, Fireman Larry, 328

  Stryker, Lieutenant Phil, 123

  Styx missiles, 128

  Subic Bay naval base, Philippines, 37, 361

  Super C, later Glorious General (North Korean Lieutenant General), 100–1, 130, 134–37, 144, 147–49, 180, 187, 188, 192–95, 207, 208, 211, 213, 215, 218–20, 222, 223, 236–39, 241–42, 244–46, 263, 264, 283, 300, 301, 329

  Sweden, 155

  Sweet Pea (North Korean guard), 194

  Sweitzer, Captain Henry, 122

  Swerdfeger, Keith, 376

  Switzerland, 155

  Syria, 200

  Taedong River, 93, 373

  Taiwan, 119

  Taylor, General Maxwell, 125

  Tet offensive, 107, 196, 201

  Thailand, 201

  Thompson, Llewellyn, 110

  Thurmond, Strom, 109

  Tiemann, Norbert, 338, 339

  Time magazine, 121, 244–45, 287, 315, 363

  Tokyo Bay, 28

  Tractor Driver, The (movie), 182

  Tracy, Spencer, 35

  Truman, Harry, 109

  Tsushima Strait, 44, 50, 307

  Tuck, Dunnie “Friar,” 53, 60, 61, 65–66, 193, 241, 324, 377, 379

  Tumen River, 52

  Turkey, 169

  TWA Flight 847, 378

  U-2 aircraft, 4

  Uh Je-yeon, General, 375

  Ung-do, North Korea, 59, 61

  Uniform Code of Military Justice, 295

  United Nations, 113, 116, 119–20, 128, 283, 341

  U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, 200

  U.S. Armed Forces Radio
, 244

  U.S. Eighth Army, 160

  U.S. 18th Tactical Fighter Wing, 81, 347

  U.S. Fifth Air Force, 79, 89, 310, 346

  U.S. Mine Flotilla One, 361

  U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego, 271, 279

  U.S. Pacific Fleet, 275

  U.S. 2nd Armored Division, 227–28

  U.S. 2nd Infantry Division, 56, 154

  U.S. Seventh Fleet, 310, 345

  U.S. Submarine Flotilla Seven, 37–38, 122

  USS Banner, 10, 22, 30–32, 36, 39, 62, 65, 79, 99, 252, 307, 308, 310, 311, 314

  USS Besugo, 37, 278

  USS Birmingham, 293

  USS Chesapeake, 126

  USS Coral Sea, 78

  USS Enterprise, 77–79, 81, 108, 113, 116, 117, 124, 125, 129, 165–66, 168, 310, 341, 342, 345–47, 352, 365

  USS Forrestal, 352

  USS Gar, 293

  USS George Washington, 3

  USS Liberty, 13–14, 39

  USS Maddox, 292

  USS Maine, 290

  USS Mount McKinley, 36

  USS Mullany, 307

  USS New Jersey, 341

  USS Ozbourn, 116, 117

  USS Princeton, 293

  USS Pueblo

  American reaction to seizure of, 105–16, 119–21, 125–29, 156, 159, 166–67, 175, 181, 197–98, 212, 224–25, 230, 232, 234, 255, 257–61, 281, 290–91, 339

  apology issue, 229–34, 254, 259–61, 266, 267, 281

  appearance of, 7, 11

  arrival in Wonsan of, 87

  attempts by North Koreans to recruit crew, 240–41

  civilian oceanographers on, 41, 53–54, 60, 61, 138

  commander of (see Bucher, Commander Lloyd Mark “Pete”)

  commissioning ceremony of, 8

  “confessions” of crew, 99–101, 103–4, 106, 120, 124, 133, 136, 237, 246, 250–52

  court of inquiry and, 212–13, 274–76, 285, 289–302, 305–8, 310–15, 323–25, 327–37, 339, 342, 347–51, 353–54, 357, 358, 362, 368

  crew wounded in seizure, 74, 76, 85, 86, 183

  daily rhythm on, 51

  deicing of, 52, 60

  destruction system of, 13, 14, 41, 297

  emergency destruction attempts by crew, 67, 69–76, 125, 273, 298–99, 311, 313–18, 330–33, 348

  escape schemes of crew, 186–87, 216–17, 244, 249

  experience of crew, 15

  fights amongst crew, 206, 264

  food in captivity, 94, 98, 99, 139, 144–46, 180, 181, 184, 188–90, 216, 218, 236, 240–41, 244, 263

  health of crew, 181, 183–84, 189, 190, 205, 208, 211, 217–19, 236, 244, 282, 283, 286, 291, 355–56, 360

  Hell Week for crew, 247–52, 272, 283, 356

  hygiene on, 24

  intelligence debriefing of crew, 271, 285–86

  interrogations of Bucher and crew, 95–100, 134–36, 144, 238

 

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