In the early hours of June 23, 1952, the skies over the Korean Peninsula braced for a mission that many feared would start a new World War. Task Force 77, a formidable fleet of four American aircraft carriers, was poised to strike. The USS Philippine Sea, already in position, was soon joined by the USS Princeton, USS Boxer, and finally, the USS Bon Homme Richard, sailing from Yokosuka, Japan, to bolster the force.
Their objective was the Sui-ho Dam, a strategic target less than forty miles from a MiG-15 fighter base complex in China. With 150 MiGs stationed there, the stakes were high. The mission’s success hinged on a coordinated, simultaneous arrival over the targets, ensuring the enemy’s defenses were caught off guard.
As the clock ticked, aircraft from the US Air Force, the US Navy, and the US Marine Corps took to the skies. Propeller-driven planes and jets, launched in tandem, aimed to converge on their target simultaneously. The carrier aircraft of Task Force 77, masking their radar signatures, flew low over the mountains, preparing for a high-speed assault.
Leading the charge in one of the staggering 410 strike sorties to be launched that day, eighty-four F-86 Sabres arrived in the Sui-ho area. Their primary task was to fend off the hundreds of MiGs that were taking to the sky. Accompanying US fighter-bombers had over 200 tons of bombs ready to rain on the dam.
The fate of the world was in the balance. Destruction of the Sui-ho dam would not only knock out 90% of power in the region and cripple North Korea, but this came at the risk of cutting off power to China. As hundreds of fighters met in the skies so close to Chinese territory, British intelligence behind the scenes feared the mission was on the verge of triggering World War 3…
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This is non-sense China had near nothing to start w3 with at that point.
You should do a video on the two times israel attacked american warships before they started bores with neighboring countries
the US are so savage, trying to start WW3 by doing terror attacks on cvilian infrastructure. They only know how to play diiirty
"In a breathtakng dsplay of mlitary might"…. They bombed a bunch of civilian damns to starve out the millions of civilians they wantedd enslave, what creatures of evil
Politically, communist bought politicians were more dangerous than the opposing military.
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North Korea still hasn't recovered from that attack
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The Russians had almost no inventory of atom bombs and the only way to deliver them was the B29sky, a reverse engineered B29 that was unreliable, untested and in small numbers. WW3 might have saved our world from a lot of the Cold War. We'll never know.
They should have taken out China back then!!
Remarkable that you do not even bother to estimate Korean Civillian Deaths in this bombing of dams and electricity supply
MacArthur had the right idea.
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I would have nuked china and russia at that time- world would have been better off today.
They should have blown that dam up way earlier in the war.
Not bad at all only 5 jets lost for a extremely important damn
Great story. Pictures not so much. MacArthur going ashore with the Ptesudeny of the Philippines, talking about Chinese and showing emperor of Japan. Picture of USS Shangri-la instead of deployed carriers etc.
Excellent video. I served in RoK in the late 70's. We should have nuked Pyongyang after the axe murders at the DMZ in 1976. Our unelected president, Gerald Ford refused to authorized that.
It would have been better to strike the mig base in the long run.
Why the footage of napalm?
Not surprising. Labor party = socialist/communist.
How many people died because of evil that never takes a day off !
Wasn't macaurther relived of command for wanting to nuke China….. he was probably rite but politics….
and what about all the civilian deaths america
WW3 can start at several hotspots: Taiwan, Kashmir….
It was evil, Christian baby killers in charge of the US. They still are.
Communism was invented in the United States and financed by international actors who then exported it to destroy Russia and kill Christians. Later they had to save the Russian commies from the Germans and the Chinese commies from Japan. After World War II, all serious threats to communism were eliminated and it was allowed to thrive for its original purpose, as a perpetual enemy for endless wars and a Cold War known as the Golden Age for arms manufacturers and bankster$. Now the chickens are coming home to roost – you can't serve evil for over a century without incurring God's wrath !
So . . . was the attack even intended to breach the dams?
Because, if it was, they failed to learn the lessons from the raid in May 1943 on the dams in western Germany.
Ending the war would've closed down the gravy train so nope
Fuck Communism
Thank you Truman for creating the CCP monster that we have to deal with today. I guess his glasses contributed to his shortsightedness, not helped.
"The Attack that Almost Started WW3 and You've Never Heard About" Which one?
It never ceases to amaze me that Western Civilization always has a cabal of politicians who are willing to sell out to our enemies for personal political gain. The British labor leaders behaved despicably. Good thing it doesn't happen these days… 😉
Fascinating, never heard of this operation before. Great presentation.
MacArthur should have been relieved of duty after escaping away in the dark of the night and then ordering the survivors to surrender including what would become my future command 3/4 "I" company. The guy had to have more blackmail material than J. Edgar Hoover to keep combat commands.
You made a booboo. There is no ideological battle between Communism and Capitalism. That is Communist Propaganda. The battle is between Communism and Freedom, Capitalism, or free markets, are only the economic expression of Freedom.
Sleek, Skyraider???