This is Jocco podcast number one twenty six with echo Charles and me Jocco Willink good evening echo good evening and tonight also joining us is

Mr. David Burke good evening Dave good evening

On

September 27th

1950

Approximately 60 American prisoners

Who had been confined in prison were taken into the prison yard in groups of 14 with their hands wired together

These men were forced to sit hunched and hastily dug ditches and

Then were shot by North Korean troops at point-black range with American M1 rifles using armor piercing ammunition

Of the two seriously wounded survivors

Only one lived to recount the gruesome details

Unnumbered civilians estimated at between 5,000 and 7,000 as well as soldiers of the Republic of Korea were also slaughtered

Between September 23rd and September 27th 1950

Sergeant Kerry H. Y. Nell

formerly with the 23rd Infantry Regiment Second Division Korea was the sole survivor of the

infamous Tazhon massacre and

He testified

At a congressional hearing and I'm gonna read some of that transcript. Here's Sergeant Y. Nell

Toward the last they was in a hurry to leave Tazhon to evacuate Tazhon

So they took approximately the last three groups pretty close together

I witnessed the group right in front of me shot

After they was shot we was taken to the ditch and sat down in the ditch and shot and

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