Five hundred U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps bombers roared northward over Korea one day this week for the biggest bombing raid of the two-year-old Korean war. Their payload was more than bombs: they carried political explosives.
Without opposition from 200 MIGs spotted on nearby airfields, and without loss of a single aircraft, the formations blasted five North Korean power plants which supply not only 90% of all power for Communist North Korea, but also power for Communist Manchuria. The principal target was the great Suiho power project on the south bank of the Yalu, keystone of the hydroelectric development which...
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