On 25 June 1951, General O’Donnell, commander of the Far Eastern Air Force Bomber Command, testified in answer to a question from Senator John C. Stennis ("North Korea has been virtually destroyed, hasn’t it?): “Oh, yes;… I would say that the entire, almost the entire Korean Peninsula is just a terrible mess. Everything is destroyed. There is nothing standing worthy of the name… Just before the Chinese came in we were grounded. There were no more targets in Korea.”
This was after they had bombed the entire country into rubble and killed a quarter of a million people.
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This was after they had bombed the entire country into rubble and killed a quarter of a million people.