SOUTH VIETNAM: SERVICE FOR EIGHT SOUTH KOREAN OFFICERS KILLED IN AIR CRASH.

Record ID: 230315

  • Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: SERVICE FOR EIGHT SOUTH KOREAN OFFICERS KILLED IN AIR CRASH.
  • Date: 18th November 1969
  • Summary: 1. LV ROK HEADQUARTERS IN SAIGON 0.03 2. LV KOREAN FLAG AT HALF-MAST 0.06 3. MLV OFFICIALS AT CEREMONY, GEN. ABRAMS SECOND RIGHT FROM ROW 0.08 4. MCU MEMORIAL SERVICE - PORTRAITS OF KILLED OFFICERS 0.11 5. CU WOMEN CRYING 0.14 6. MCU GEN. LEE BURNING JOSS STICKS 0.20 7. CU GEN. ABRAMS PLACING FLOWERS ON ALTAR 0.28 8. CU AIR MARSHAL PRACHAT BURNS JOSS STICK 0.30 9. MCU COLONEL STRETTON AN AUSTRALIAN 0.38 10. MCU NEW ZEALANDS MAJOR PETER SUMMER 0.43 11. MV ALTAR 0.44 12. MV RIFLE SALUTE 0.52 13. MV CASKETS BEING CARRIED AWAY (2 SHOTS) 1.08 14. MV MOTORCADE (2 SHOTS) 1.24 Initials EH/VS/JF/MH Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd December 1969 13:00
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  • Location: SAIGON, SOUTH VIETNAM
  • Country: Vietnam
  • Reuters ID: LVA7P63XIYJBCE7XMT2G79Q6MPEO
  • Story Text: GENERAL CREIGHTON ABRAMS COMMANDER OF THE U.S. FORCES IN VIETNAM, JOINED SOUTH KOREAN COMMANDER GENERAL LEE SAE HO AND VIETNAMESE COMMANDER GENERAL CAO VAN VIEN WHEN HE ATTENDED A MOVING SERVICE AT THE SOUTH KOREAN MILITARY HEADQUARTERS IN SAIGON LAST FRIDAY (14 NOVEMBER) TO HONOUR EIGHT HIGH-RANKING SOUTH KOREAN OFFICERS, KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE WHEN THEIR AIRCRAFT CRASHED ON A TOUR OF INSPECTION ON THE PREVIOUS TUESDAY. OTHER REPRESENTATIVES OF SOUTH KOREA'S ALLIES IN VIETNAM WERE ALSO AT THE SERVICE.

    THE DISASTER HAPPENED SOME FOUR KILOMETRES SOUTH-EAST OF QUI NHON. BAD WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE CAUSED THE CRASH OF THE U-21 AIRCRAFT WHICH WAS CARRYING THE EIGHT MEN TO A SITE WHERE THEY WERE TO INSPECT SOUTH KOREAN COMBAT UNITS IN READINESS FOR THE VIETCONG'S WINTER OFFENSIVE.

    TWO OF THE MEN - COLONEL KIM JUNG HWAN AND KIM KANG SUP - HAD JUST BEEN PROMOTED TO BRIGADIER GENERALS. THE OTHER VICTIMS WERE: COLONEL AHN DO YULL, LT. COL. HA BONG HO, LT. COL SON JEE SUP, MAJOR KIM TAE IK, AND MAJOR LEE KYO JIN, BOTH ASSISTANT PILOTS OF THE AIRCRAFT.

    AFTER THE SERVICE, THE COFFINS WERE FLOWN TO SOUTH KOREA FOR BURIAL.
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