Reds Give Apples to 15 U.N. Soldiers, Murder 14	With the U.S. 27TH REGIMENT, Korea, Nov 11 (Delayed) (AP) - Murder of 11 Americans and three South Korean soldiers by the Korean Reds was disclosed to day by an American survivor who escaped with the aid of a Red deserter. The machine-gunning slaughter occurred in the Ichon area, 60 miles north of Seoul, where 25th Division troops have been battling bypassed Reds. Regimental officers identified the survivor as Corp. William Milano of Philadelphia, PA., wounded in the hand. He has been sent to a rear hospital for treatment. Officers said this was his story: The Americans and South Koreans on a reconnaissance patrol, were ambushed and captured. North Koreans treated the captives well at first, binding the wounds of several. Then the Reds started interrogating prisoners. An American officer told the GIs to refuse to answer such questions as "How many men in the U.S. Army? Who is the greater man -- Stalin or Truman? Are the Chinese in Korea yet?" The officer was beaten severely for giving such orders the prisoners were given four apples each and told they would be questioned further the next morning. Then clothing was taken and they were given North Korean uniforms. The group then was marched up the hillside in the dusk. Part way up the hill they were ordered to halt. The Reds then machine-gunned them from behind. Corporal Milano dropped to the ground at the first shot, one of which struck him in the hand. he lay among the dead all night. At dawn, shivering with cold, he checked to see if any others were alive. Finding himself the only survivor, he crawled into a cornfield. He was spotted by a North Korean woman. She went to her nearby village and told her husband, a North Korean army deserter, who was hiding under the rood of their hut./ The ex-Communist soldier and his wife arranged for two elderly Koreans to smuggle Corporal Milano into the village on their wooden backpacks. Corporal Milano spent the rest of the day in the village and was smuggled out that night to a nearby U.S. unit. Bodies of the murdered Americans and South Koreans, some still with their four apples in their pockets, were recovered the next day by another patrol.

Reds Give Apples to 15 U.N. Soldiers, Murder 14

With the U.S. 27TH REGIMENT, Korea, Nov 11 (Delayed) (AP) - Murder of 11 Americans and three South Korean soldiers by the Korean Reds was disclosed to day by an American survivor who escaped with the aid of a Red deserter. The machine-gunning slaughter occurred in the Ichon area, 60 miles north of Seoul, where 25th Division troops have been battling bypassed Reds. Regimental officers identified the survivor as Corp. William Milano of Philadelphia, PA., wounded in the hand. He has been sent to a rear hospital for treatment. Officers said this was his story: The Americans and South Koreans on a reconnaissance patrol, were ambushed and captured. North Koreans treated the captives well at first, binding the wounds of several. Then the Reds started interrogating prisoners. An American officer told the GIs to refuse to answer such questions as "How many men in the U.S. Army? Who is the greater man -- Stalin or Truman? Are the Chinese in Korea yet?" The officer was beaten severely for giving such orders the prisoners were given four apples each and told they would be questioned further the next morning. Then clothing was taken and they were given North Korean uniforms. The group then was marched up the hillside in the dusk. Part way up the hill they were ordered to halt. The Reds then machine-gunned them from behind. Corporal Milano dropped to the ground at the first shot, one of which struck him in the hand. he lay among the dead all night. At dawn, shivering with cold, he checked to see if any others were alive. Finding himself the only survivor, he crawled into a cornfield. He was spotted by a North Korean woman. She went to her nearby village and told her husband, a North Korean army deserter, who was hiding under the rood of their hut./ The ex-Communist soldier and his wife arranged for two elderly Koreans to smuggle Corporal Milano into the village on their wooden backpacks. Corporal Milano spent the rest of the day in the village and was smuggled out that night to a nearby U.S. unit. Bodies of the murdered Americans and South Koreans, some still with their four apples in their pockets, were recovered the next day by another patrol.