Bumping the FReeper Foxhole...I'm not sure who organizes the Foxhole but I thought you could weigh in on this.
John Philip Shaddick
http://www.koreanwar.org/com/remembrance_detail/search_rem.cfm?KCCFADD__CASUALTY_ID=3373 Remembering 1LT JOHN PHILLIP SHADDICK III
United States Air Force - 28 BOMB SQDN 19 BOMB GROUP
Submission 3373 By Richard Carlson
FRIEND: I did not not know Lt. Shaddick; however I did know a member of his crew, a Hidemaro Ishida who was a gunner on his airplane when they were shot down.In researching information, I found a number of documents regarding the incident, some of which were declassified. Lt. Shaddick and four other crew members later known as the "Ashley Five", after the Aircraft Commander, were shot down by enemy fighters near Pyongnang on January 29, 1953. Four of the crew were POWs, and the "Ashley Five" succesfully bailed out and were able to escape capture and were liberated by partisans who planed to return them to South Korea.Their story remains a gripping tale. There were rescue attempt made which failed, but they were later reported still alive after the truce was signed, but were never listed as POWs and were never found I do have copies of this material and would provide it to family members along with contact information on the two surviving POWs.
Submission Number 3373 2000-01-01 19:24:54
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RICHR177@AOL.COM FIRSTNAME: Richard
LAST NAME: Carlson
STREET: 483 Fletcher DR
CITY: Smyrna
STATE: DE
ZIP: 19977
COUNTRY: USA
TELEPHONE: (302) 659-1162
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YOUR UNIT: 98th Bomb Wing 344th Bomb Sqdn.
Personal Information
Hostile, Died While Missing (MIA) - Air Force
Name: 1LT JOHN PHILLIP SHADDICK III
Casualty Key: 27085
MOS: -----
IDNO: AO221920
Branch: --
Rank: 1LT
Grade: O2
Component: RA
Birth Year: 1927
Birth Date: 1927-10-17 00:00:00
Home: CORAL GABLES FL
Type Of Casualty: Hostile, Died While Missing (MIA)
Casualty Date: 1954-01-30 00:00:00
Province: --
Location of Loss: Near Pyongyang, North Korea
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Add Birthdate: 1927-10-17 00:00:00
Burial Location: MIA
Ethnic On Record: Caucasian
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Airfield: Kadena AFB, Okinawa
Group: 19th Bomb Group
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Squadron: 28th Bomb Squadron
Aircraft Type: B-29
Comments: The B-29 crew had just completed a bomb run on the Kompo-Dong supply area when they were attacked by Communist fighters and shot down.
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Unit: 28 BOMB SQDN 19 BOMB GROUP
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Editor Comments: 28th Bomb Squadron
This is the last of what I have. You may have most of this but perhaps something will help. Good luck exsoldier.
http://216.239.33.104/search?q=cache:Lu4E7jqSiksJ:www.kimsoft.com/korea/mia-us.htm+shaddick++MIA&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Lt. Gilbert Ashley, Lt. Harold Turner, Lt. Arthur Olsen, Lt. John Shaddick and Airman Hidemaru Ishida - crew members of a B29 shot down on January 29, 1953 - were known to be alive as of April 23, 1953. It is suspected that Ashley was working for (or forced to) the N Korean counterintelligence, which routinely used captured pilots as baits to lure US planes and rescue units into ambush.
The last message heard of the captives was received on August 6, 1953 from a group of American agents in N Korea (which supposedly rescued the airmen) - "Many agents were killed to rescue and guard the aviators. We were awakened from your deadly murderous action. We will not work anymore for you. Furthermore we resolved that in case you don't give us an answer regarding this message by 1700 hours 4th August we will surrender to NK after we killed the five aviators in revenge."
http://www.aiipowmia.com/faxnet/fxrescue813.html To: ALL
From: Bob Necci & Carol Hrdlicka, Andi Wolos
(POW-MIA FaxNetwork)
Re: USAF Reprot Details Rescue Attempt
Date: August 13, 1997
Regarding the USAF report that was declassified this week, the account of a rescue attempt to gain the release of five B-29 crewmembers is chilling.
On 24 May 1953, the US mounted an exercise to obtain the freedom of five men - First Lieutenants Gilbert Ashley, Arthur Olsen and Harold Turner, Second Lt. John Shaddick and Airman Second Class Hidemaro Ishida.
According to three other B-29 crews, there was a 'signal' of flashing lights. A report was authored by the Escape and Evasion Section of the 6004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron, and a rescue attempt, codenamed - Green Dragon - launched.
Ashley was able to communicate with the pilot of the rescue effort and as a result the Green Dragon Team was able to lock into Ashley's location. The aircraft sustained heavy damage, and the mission aborted.
If they ever launched another mission or why, if they didn't, may never be known. All we do know is that 43 years after the fact, the Air Force declassifies a report which ends up in the national Archives. And within its pages we read the names of men and their words... and we know they never returned. And we have to ask ourselves, where are they?
http://www.theriver.com/Public/gcompany/usaf-p-z.htm Air Force
SHADDICK, JOHN PHILIP III AO-2221920 1LT O2
Status=MIA, Unit=28TH BOMB SQ, Incident Date=1/29/53,
Date Repatriated=, Vehicle Type=B-29, Vehicle ID=,
Home State=FL, Home City=CORAL GABLES,
Date of Birth=10/17/27, Date of Death=1/30/54
http://kalaniosullivan.com/KunsanAB/3rdBW/POWMIA1.html POSSIBLY DOZENS OF MISSING AIRMEN WERE ALIVE IN CHINA OR NORTH KOREA AT END OF KOREAN WAR: (AUG 97)
Date: August 6, 1997
WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuter) - U.S. officials concluded at least five and possibly dozens of missing airmen were alive in Chinese or North Korean hands when the Korean War ended in July 1953, according to a newly declassified Air Force report.
The report, dated Oct. 19, 1955, described a bold but failed attempt to rescue the five, members of a B-29 bomb crew shot down near Pyongyang on Jan. 29, 1953.
Unanswered questions about the fate of the some 8,100 Americans still listed as unaccounted for from the war is one of the many issues that the United States is pursuing with North Korea.
Recently, the Defence Department has begun pressing China for information on specific U.S. prisoners possibly sent there from North Korean camps but never heard of again, Pentagon officials said.
Both China and North Korea, allies during the war against U.S.-led United Nations forces, have said they withheld no U.S. prisoners from the fighting.
The previously secret intelligence report, obtained by Reuters on Wednesday, listed the cases of 137 Air Force personnel ``who may possibly be alive, or may have been alive in Communist captivity at one time'' during the war.
It said the five, who did not return when prisoners were exchanged nor have been otherwise accounted for, ``were known to be alive in Communist hands at the close of the Korean conflict.''
Names of the five were already part of a Pentagon compilation of 389 missing servicemen from the war about whose fate U.S. officials say China or North Korea should have information.
Chinese forces managed North Korean prisoner-of-war camps during much of the war and in some cases sent U.S. POWs to China for interrogation.
In what appeared to be a gesture of good will, North Korean officials on Monday handed over remains said to belong to four Americans killed in a 1950 clash with Chinese forces near Unsan, due north of Pyongyang and about 20 miles (32 kilometres) south of China's border.
The declassified report disclosed a May 24, 1953 effort to snatch back the five-man B-29 crew: First Lieutenants Gilbert Ashley, Arthur Olsen and Harold Turner, Second Lt. John Shaddick and Airman Second Class Hidemaro Ishida.
The rescue operation, codenamed Green Dragon, followed the sighting by three other B-29 crews of ``what appeared to be a signal'' made up of flashing lights, said the report, prepared by the Escape and Evasion Section of the 6004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron.
It said the pilot of the rescue craft somehow made radio contact with Ashley on the ground and that Ashley helped them zero in on his location.
``The pilot reported that the voice was definitely that of the American who had previously been identified as Lt. Ashley,'' the report added. It said on approaching the pick-up site the aircraft was damaged by enemy fire from at least two directions, forcing the mission to be aborted.
``Rescue officials soon determined the (U.S.) aviators were actually under the control of Communist troops, who were using them to get supplies and equipment,'' co-authors James Sanders, Mark Sauter and Cort Kirkwood wrote in their 1992 book ``Soldiers of Misfortune.''
Ashley, of Rock Hall, Maryland, was 30 at the time of his shootdown. The Air Force had no comment on the declassified report, which was made available at the National Archives.
Dolores Alfond, chair of the National Alliance of Families for the Return of America's Missing Servicemen, said the report illustrated her view that the Pentagon was wrongly focusing on digging up bones rather than pressing for any survivors.
``It's not our policy to be looking for living Americans,'' she said in a telephone interview from her home in Bellevue, Washington. ``The American policy is to be looking for remains. That's our whole problem.''
Someone had mentioned, that Lt. Ashley was forced to help the North Koreans. Also that several of the offices might have been in China or N. Korea. We received a letter during that period of my Uncle “J.P.” as John was known as. The letter was in Mongolian and in his fraternity's color (Sigma Alpha Epsilon”. After that the letters stopped.