Comments on: Supply Drops for Prisoners of War http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2006/03/supply-drops-for-prisoners-of-war/ The Korea History Group Blog Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:29:23 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Jacco http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2006/03/supply-drops-for-prisoners-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-80665 Jacco Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:43:07 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/korea/?p=53#comment-80665 HUSAFIK - can this be bought in print anywhere? If the owner of this blog knows, he/she is welcome to email me with the relevant information. HUSAFIK – can this be bought in print anywhere?

If the owner of this blog knows, he/she is welcome to email me with the relevant information.

]]> By: ed4linda http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2006/03/supply-drops-for-prisoners-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-332 ed4linda Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:20:17 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/korea/?p=53#comment-332 While this is only tangentially related, it may be of some interest: In 1967 when I was going to Korea as a Fulbright Fellow from Princeton, to be attached to the Asiatic Research Center (亞細亞問題硏究所) at Koryo University, I met Kim Jun-hyop from the Center, first at Princeton and later in Seoul. In the course of our association he told me how he had been in the Japanese Army in China and deserted to join the Korean government in absentia in Shanghai. He related an interesting anecdote about the end of the war in the Pacific: apparently there was a race on between the State Department on one hand and the OSS to gain control in Seoul as the Japanese were forced to withdraw. According to Kim (and my fading memory)the OSS loaded up its guys, including Kim, onto an airplane and flew them to (I believe) Kimp'o to try to set up a new government while State was hustling Syngman Rhee and his cohort off from Hawaii. The OSS timing, apparently, was a bit premature, and the aircraft arrived at Kimp'o before the turnover by the Japanese, the plane was not permitted to land, but was forced to return toChina. In the interim, the turnover took place, Rhee came in, and, the rest, as they say, was history. I wonder if anyone has corroborating or different information on such a race for control of post-occupation Korea? Regards, Doc Rock While this is only tangentially related, it may be of some interest: In 1967 when I was
going to Korea as a Fulbright Fellow from Princeton, to be attached to the Asiatic Research
Center (亞細亞問題硏究所) at Koryo University, I met Kim Jun-hyop from the Center, first at
Princeton and later in Seoul. In the course of our association he told me how he had been
in the Japanese Army in China and deserted to join the Korean government in absentia in
Shanghai. He related an interesting anecdote about the end of the war in the Pacific:
apparently there was a race on between the State Department on one hand and the OSS to gain
control in Seoul as the Japanese were forced to withdraw. According to Kim (and my
fading memory)the OSS loaded up its guys, including Kim, onto an airplane and flew them to
(I believe) Kimp’o to try to set up a new government while State was hustling Syngman Rhee
and his cohort off from Hawaii. The OSS timing, apparently, was a bit premature, and the
aircraft arrived at Kimp’o before the turnover by the Japanese, the plane was not permitted
to land, but was forced to return toChina. In the interim, the turnover took place, Rhee came
in, and, the rest, as they say, was history.

I wonder if anyone has corroborating or different information on such a race for control of
post-occupation Korea?

Regards,

Doc Rock

]]> By: History : Other » History Carnival #27 http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2006/03/supply-drops-for-prisoners-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-330 History : Other » History Carnival #27 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:24:12 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/korea/?p=53#comment-330 [...] With other Frogs temporarily distracted, Konrad Lawson leapt to the rescue with a hefty piece on an exceptional case of Japanese nationalists in the age of Occupation censorship, pondering the fate of wartime symbology and pan-Asianism; and also glanced at post-surrender POW supply drops in Korea. The Dougout, meanwhile, is not so far away, telling the story of the Battle of the Bismarck Sea [...] [...] With other Frogs temporarily distracted, Konrad Lawson leapt to the rescue with a hefty piece on an exceptional case of Japanese nationalists in the age of Occupation censorship, pondering the fate of wartime symbology and pan-Asianism; and also glanced at post-surrender POW supply drops in Korea. The Dougout, meanwhile, is not so far away, telling the story of the Battle of the Bismarck Sea [...]

]]> By: History : Other » History Carnival #27 http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2006/03/supply-drops-for-prisoners-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-329 History : Other » History Carnival #27 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:24:08 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/korea/?p=53#comment-329 [...] With other Frogs temporarily distracted, Konrad Lawson leapt to the rescue with a hefty piece on an exceptional case of Japanese nationalists in the age of Occupation censorship, pondering the fate of wartime symbology and pan-Asianism; and also glanced at post-surrender POW supply drops in Korea. The Dougout, meanwhile, is not so far away, telling the story of the Battle of the Bismarck Sea [...] [...] With other Frogs temporarily distracted, Konrad Lawson leapt to the rescue with a hefty piece on an exceptional case of Japanese nationalists in the age of Occupation censorship, pondering the fate of wartime symbology and pan-Asianism; and also glanced at post-surrender POW supply drops in Korea. The Dougout, meanwhile, is not so far away, telling the story of the Battle of the Bismarck Sea [...]

]]> By: History : Other » History Carnival #27 http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2006/03/supply-drops-for-prisoners-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-328 History : Other » History Carnival #27 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:24:07 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/korea/?p=53#comment-328 [...] With other Frogs temporarily distracted, Konrad Lawson leapt to the rescue with a hefty piece on an exceptional case of Japanese nationalists in the age of Occupation censorship, pondering the fate of wartime symbology and pan-Asianism; and also glanced at post-surrender POW supply drops in Korea. The Dougout, meanwhile, is not so far away, telling the story of the Battle of the Bismarck Sea [...] [...] With other Frogs temporarily distracted, Konrad Lawson leapt to the rescue with a hefty piece on an exceptional case of Japanese nationalists in the age of Occupation censorship, pondering the fate of wartime symbology and pan-Asianism; and also glanced at post-surrender POW supply drops in Korea. The Dougout, meanwhile, is not so far away, telling the story of the Battle of the Bismarck Sea [...]

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