<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Based on the interviews I did and memoirs I read in South Ch'ungch'ŏng, there were a few occasions of bombings here and there. GGK established many lookout stations (防空監視哨) as well. But the scale of casualties was very small. There was no carpet bombing or massive air raids like the ones they had in Japan or Taiwan.</div><div><br></div><div>Sayaka Chatani</div><div>Ph.D. candidate</div><div>International and Global History, Columbia University</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Jun 10, 2013, at 8:42 PM, カプリオマークE <<a href="mailto:caprio@rikkyo.ac.jp">caprio@rikkyo.ac.jp</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">This is an interesting question seeing that the US did bomb Taiwan. My guess is that US bombing missions were inching their way north and the Korean peninsula was not on that route at the time. That Rhee had an in with Roosevelt I would doubt very much. I think people in D.C. were rather sick of him by that time. Also, Roosevelt did not live much longer after the major bombings of Tokyo began in March 1945. Perhaps the US was not familiar with the potential targets available in Korea??<div>
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<div>This is purely anecdotal but when I was
a Peace Corps volunteer in Pusan in the 60s one of my colleagues
at the school where I was teaching mentioned how B-29s routinely
flew over Korea but never dropped bombs. To Koreans it was an
inspiration that help was possibly on its way and Japan did not
rule the skies.<br>
Ned Shultz<br>
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<div>I am very familiar with B-29 military targets in Japan
during WWII, but for some reason Korean industry is not on
that list. Yes, the ports were mined to prevent war materials
from reaching Japan, but Wonsan, Pyongyang, Seoul and Hungnam
were never bombed, not even once. </div>
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<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">American B-29 <span style="background-color:transparent">"experts" have
offered several explanations, but I found them all to be
inadequate. My thought is that Syngman Rhee struck some sort
of deal with President Roosevelt? </span><span style="background-color:transparent">Does anyone have
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