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Old 07-11-2010, 10:03 AM
Graebarde Graebarde is offline
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Originally Posted by boogiedowndonovan View Post
I remember reading about this when I was a kid, not quite the inter-German border.

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/21/wo...ch-border.html
There were always incidents which the media/general public were never aware of. While the Cobra was not hit, is probably intentional. Sides always tested each other.

cira December 1970, ROK about 60km north of Kunsan on the Yellow Sea, and more than 200km south of the DMZ. Christmas eve to be exact as I just arrived in my unit on my second tour to the Far East. People are standing looking out at the sea. When I asked what was going on I too looked out across the rice paddies and sea. In the distance I saw green tracers rising from the sea and orange rocket trails coming from the darkened sky. The ROK air force was in the process of sinking a NK gunboat about six miles out. Out of the fryingpan into the fire I found I was headed. The incident was never reported in the news that I saw. Neither was the fire fight my section was in the following August. In 1971, there were over 370 'incidents' from the DMZ south with only a few making it to the media.
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