I am assisting my Grandfather Doug Stinnett with his profile. He is currently retired for the 3rd time, and living in Roswell, New Mexio with his wife Verlaine. My grandfather is a hero to many people, and has touched the lives of many. After Raising 4 children of his own, he took in 3 of his grandchildren, one of them being me. My father was sent to prison when I was 4y/o. My grandfather got off work the night my father was hauled away after working from 4:00a.m. until 6:00 p.m. and drove from Roswell, NM to Kansas City, Kansas. He only stopped for a 45 minute nap, food, and restroom breaks in fear of me being taken into State Custody. He also took in my twin cousins while his daughter was dying of cancer. Doug is now 73 years old. He is in pretty good health. He went to Missouri this last November to do some Deer hunting with my father. After retirung from the Air Force he drove Semi-Trucks hauling Oil for quite a few years. After that He began pumping gas at the air station in Roswell, N.M. It didn't take long before he was the Vice President of Great Southwest Aviation. ( If any one who views this profile knows him, please leave us a message. I will pass it on to him. He would love to hear from some of the guys who are still around. I am a Marine Corps Veteran and a member of Marine Together we served.)
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Steve Stinnett
Korean War/Korean Summer (1953)
From Month/Year
May / 1953
To Month/Year
June / 1953
Description Although Communist leaders showed a desire to negotiate an armistice, they would not do so before trying to improve their
military positions. During May 1953 Fifth Air Force reconnaissance revealed that the Chinese and North Koreans were regrouping their front-line forces. On the last day of the month, Lt. Gen. Samuel E. Anderson took command of the Fifth Air Force.
Communist forces directed a major assault on June 10 against the Republic of Korea's II Corps near Kumsong, a small town in central Korea, 110 miles southeast of Pyongyang. With American aid, the South Koreans stopped the Communist drive by June 19 with little loss of territory. During the enemy offensive, UN pilots broke previous records in flying close air support sorties, with Far East Air Forces flying 7,032, the Marines, 1,348, and other UN air forces, 537. Also during June FEAF devoted about 1/2 of its combat sorties to close air support.
Communist troops attacked again in central Korea on July 13, forcing the ROK II Corps to retreat once more. But by the 20th Allied ground forces had stopped the foe's advance only a few miles south of previous battle lines. Once again, during July, FEAF devoted more than 40 percent of its 12,000 combat sorties to close air support missions. During the Communist offensives, the 315th Air Division responded to demands of the Eighth Army and between June 21 and 23 airlifted an Army regiment (3,252 soldiers and 1,770 tons of cargo) from Japan to Korea. From June 28 through July 2, the airlifters flew almost 4,000 more troops and over 1,200 tons of cargo from Misawa and Tachikawa Air Bases in Japan to Pusan and Taegu airfields in Korea.
These proved to be the last major airlift operations of the Korean conflict. In aerial combat, meanwhile, Fifth Air Force interceptors set new records. Sabrejet pilots fought most aerial battles in May, June, and July 1953 at 20,000-40,000 feet in altitude, where the F-86F was most lethal, and during these 3 months, claimed 165 aerial victories against only 3 losses-the best quarterly victory-loss ratio of the war.
Fifth Air Force and FEAF Bomber Command also continued to punish the enemy through air interdiction, making attacks on the Sui-ho power complex and other industrial and military targets along the Yalu River. In addition, the Fifth Air Force in May attacked irrigation dams that had previously been excluded from the list of approved targets. On May 13 U.S. fighter-bombers broke the Toksan Dam about 20 miles north of Pyongyang, and on the 16th they bombed the Chasan Dam, a few miles to the east of Toksan Dam. The resulting floods extensively damaged rice fields, buildings, bridges, and roads. Most importantly, 2 main rail lines were disabled for several days. Between July 20 and 27 the UN Command bombed North Korean airfields to prevent extensive aerial reinforcement before the armistice ending the Korean conflict became effective on July 27, 1953.
