The untold story behind the massacre of Korean civilians by American soldiers in the early days of the Korean War is told by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who uncovered it. 16-page photo insert. In the fall of 1999, a team of Associated Press investigative reporters broke the news that U.S. troops had massacred a large group of South Korean civilians early in the Korean War. On the eve of that pivotal war's fiftieth anniversary, their reports brought to light a story that had been suppressed for decades, confirming allegations the U.S. military had sought to dismiss. It made headlines around the world. In The Bridge at No Gun Ri, the team tells the larger, human story behind the dark event through the eyes of the people who survived it. The American side, the green recruits of the "good time" U.S. Army in Japan, was made up of teenagers who viewed unarmed farmers as enemies & of generals who had never led men into battle. On the Korean side were peasant families forced to flee their ancestral village & caught between the invading North Koreans & the U.S. Army. The narrative examines victims both Korean & American; the ordinary lives & high-level decisions that led to the fatal encounter; the terror of the three-day slaughter; & the memories & ghosts that forever haunted the survivors. Based on extensive archival research & more than 500 interviews with U.S. veterans & Korean survivors, The Bridge at No Gun Ri is an extraordinary account of the tragic events of July 1950 that the world should never forget.

Includes index. Korean collection.

Preface -- Korea map -- No gun ri area map -- U.S. Eighth Army in Korea, July 1950 -- Korean families -- Prologue: End of the road -- I: Road to no gun ri -- II: Bridge at no gun ri -- III: Road from no gun ri -- Epilogue and notes on sources -- Note on the Pentagon report -- Survivors' petition to President Clinton -- No gun ri victims list -- Acknowledgments -- Index.