History & Heroes Of the Korean DMZ: 1953 to Today
The North Korean downing of a US EC-121 surveillance plane, killing 31 American servicemen. The inadequate American response to the shoot down.
How to Respond to North Korean Attacks? Lessons from the Deadly Shootdown of an American EC-121 USN EC-121 — Similar to Downed Plane [2023 Update: The US Department of State has released a formerly top secret 1981 memo from Secretary of State Al Haig to President Reagan advocating a tougher attitude toward the Soviet Union…
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DPRK Downing of U.S. EC-121 April 15, 1969 See More About America’s Response and Its Relevance Today Here For Source Documents, See Below USN EC-121 — Similar to Downed Plane [See more here on the nuclear option in this incident, plus why President Nixon later said about this incident and the communists’ strategy to: “Probe…