Show lED CAPITAL IN IIAMES 1 i L- L t UN Armada I I I. I I Sets Seis 1 Mark Mk Marki I i I With Attack IiI Ii I I r SEOUL KOREA Aug 29 UP Allied war planes of four nations nations na- na lions striking sinking from land and sea pounded huge sections of the North KOl Korean an capital of Pyongyang Pyongyang Pyongyang Pyong Pyong- yang into inlo flaming sh shambles Friday Friday Fri day in the heaviest air assault of the Korean war bombers in three waves totaling 1403 sorties lashed the Communist nerve center with bombs bullets rockets and napalm napalm napalm na na- na- na palm jellied gasoline They hit 40 carefully selected military targets in daylight after warning the civilian population by radio that the attack was coming The warning was given only 15 minutes before the first bombs fell but residents residents' have been warned many times in the past that their city is is' a prime target An earlier warning Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day airmen said would have alerted Red gunners and fighters Reds Try Desperately Communist MIG 15 jet fighters tried desperately to halt th the assault as as- sault Protecting U U. S S. S and Australian Meteor jets drove back the Russian Russian built built MIGs l destroying destroying destroying de de- de- de one and damaging two Previous record attack came cameon cameon on July 11 when the United Nations Nations Nations Na Na- nit hit Pyongyang with 1200 sorties A sortie is one flight by byone oy by oyone I Ione one plane Fridays Friday's strike also was the Fifth Filth Air Force s greatest effort of the war Planes of the thc Fifth and attached units flew 1193 missions over the target area surpassing their 1063 record of July 11 it In addition carrier planes of the U US' US US'S S S Essex Pr Princeton and Boxer struck with an estimated 2 O sorties I The third and final assault Friday Fri Fri- Fri Friday 1 day sent sept f fighters and fighter fighter- I bombers of the Fifth Air Force and ab u 70 O j planes lanes from rom carriers car car carriers against Pyongyang 1 I Ignore Red Pr Protests I The The combined land and sea armada dropped more more than tons of bombs and fired more than rounds of I tion The Thc planes dropped tanks with gallons of flaming napalm I ignoring Communist radio pro- pro I See Page 5 Column 1 I Air Assault Rips r ita tal I o of North Korea f flast from Crom Page One OneL L last week that use of oC ofos barbarism 1 os ras of oC smoke r l' l f plumes estimates of oC dam- dam I lull full fu 11 claims of oC pilots from Irom the third wave buildings destroyed GI Ii e e aged ed two gun ione i- i red I and one damaged destroy destroyed ed and 32 I hOuse concrete bridge c secondary 1 1 I h huge uge through the Ud d dI be seen I 0 of r J Jets ets darner larrier r from the American So South lh Korean and and I South African air forces together together to to- o- o gether with some planes from three American carriers joined to batter Pyongyang ang Nearly every Air Force fighter-bomber fighter was ordered to take part in the The first wave flew over the target at 10 a am m. m 6 p pm p.m. m. m MST 1ST Thursday The he second was a at t 2 pm p.m. 10 pm p.m. MST 1ST and the third third at 6 pm p.m. 2 am a.m. MST 1 Screening and Australian Australian Aus Aus- 1 acted as a barrier barrier bar bar- rier to keep enemy fighters on the other side of oC the Chon chon River north of Pyongyang The destroyed and damaged claims were the first in seven days Shoots Down MIG 1 First Lt U Charles A A. A Gabriel of Oxford N. N C C. C shot down one MIG 1 out of ei eight ht inter intercepted P b by y his fl flight fight of oC four Sabres We Ve bounced bounced 1 five MIGs 1 and four fOHr of them broke away and headed for home he said I rI chose the one that was left leU and and hit him with four bursts He I lit t up like a Christmas tree The I MIG l started stalled to come ome apart and the pilot bailed out out Damage claims went to 1st Lt William W. W Cook Merkel Tex and Maj Frederick C. C Blesse Richmond Va who was flying his lOath combat m mission The first wave of planes dropped 1000 and pound bombs Returning all allied ed pilots reported reported re reo ported Communist antiaircraft anti fire was heavy probably because the allies notified the enemy ahead of oC time they were on the way a Tons of oC Bombs The first two waves dropped tons of bombs and fired 32 32 boo rounds of ammunition on 40 targets We really blew hell out of oC an ammo dump headquarters and supply dump said reconnaissance reconnaissance recon recon- pilot 1st Lt Kenneth T. T Blank of oC Franklin Neb The fighter-bombers fighter really d did d a bang up job of oC clobbering today I |