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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

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'Up With the Bridge
Went Hundreds of Refugees'

By The Associated Press

In a now-declassified narrative sent to
an Army historian Aug. 24, 1953, Maj.
Gen. Hobart R. Gay described how, as
1st Cavalry Division commander in 1950,
he ordered the destruction of a bridge
over South Korea's Naktong River at the
cost of many refugee lives. In the
manuscript Gay refers to himself as
"the Division Commander.''

From the U.S. National Archives, College Park, Md.
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