ATIS INTERROGATION REPORT NO. 1884 16 October 1950
FIELD REPORT (521 - MISD - 0137)
1. PERSONAL DETAILS:| PW NAME: | CHAR, CHUA JION (崔在全) (최재전) |
| PW NO: | #4789 |
| RANK: | Pvt |
| UNIT: | 1st Div, 14th Regt, 2nd Bn, Communication Plt. |
| PLACE OF CAPTURE: | YANGJANG RI |
| DATE OF CAPTURE: | 28 Sep '50 |
| UNIT MAKING CAPTURE: | ROK Police |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | SEOUL city, CHUN KU, ULCHILO, 4 GAI (京城市 中区 乙支路 四街) |
| HOME ADDRESS: | SEOUL city, SONDUNGKU, SHINTANG DON #103 (京城市 城東区 新堂洞 103) |
| INTERROGATOR: | Cpl. IMAGAWA |
PW appeared to be intelligent. He was cooperative and talked freely.
Reliability: Good
Physical Condition: Fair
Length of Service: 1 month 10 days
3. MILITARY HISTORY:17 Aug '50 - Inducted at SEOUL. Attached to a volunteer unit. Received no training.
18 Aug '50 - Volunteer unit (550 men) left SEOUL, and 30 Aug '50 arrived SANGJU (尙州) approx 70km NW of TAEGU, and transferred to 1st Div, 14th Regt, 2nd Bn, Comm Plt.
30 Aug '50 - 1st Div left SANGJU and arrived KUNWI (軍衛) approx 40km N of TAEGU on 3 Sep '50.
3 Sep '50 - Left KUNWI and arrived TAEGU on 4 Sep '50. Engaged in battle till 19 Sep '50.
19 Sep '50 - Retreated to KUNWI. PW deserted and gave himself up to the ROK Police at YANGJANG RI.
4. ORGANIZATION:1st Div was composed of 3 Inf Regts, 1 Arty Regt and probably 1 tank Regt. These Inf units were called 14th, 2nd, and 3rd Regt.
14th Regt was transferred to this division from the 6th NKA Div in the spring of 1950. Each Regt was composed of 3 Bns and 1 communication Co. Each Bn was composed of 3 Inf Cos, 1 Arty Co, and 1 HMG Co and 1 communication company.
5. STRENGTH:The strength of each Regt was estimated at 2,500 men when PW was assigned, however, the strength decreased tremendously because unit was always engaged in battle, although replacements were steadily received. The present strength is believed to be 2/3 of original strength.
The 1st and 13th Div were to reorganize in ODESAN area near WONJU.
Strength of the reorganized 1st and 13th Div was to be as follow:
| 1st Div - Remainder of well trained troop | 4,700 |
| Newly recruited troop | 300 |
| Remainder of 3rd Div | 700 |
| 5,700 |
| 13th Div - Remainder of well trained troop | 3,000 |
| Newly recruited troop | 2,500 |
| 5,500 |
1st Div was believed to be more heavily equipped because 1st Div did not suffer many losses at the battle of TAEGU. 13th Div was practically unarmed because they were forced to abandon all their weapons in hasty retreat.
13th Div suffered almost total loss of weapon at battle of TAEGU, therefore planned to raid SK police stations and small units of the Americans at night tq acquire necessary weapons.
These plans were to be put in operation as soon as possible.
The above information was gained thru listening in on telephone calls from the Div Commander, and partly from a friend who was a telephone operator for the 14th Regt. He was always with Regt Commander and attended staff conference. His name was KAN, CHAN OK (姜昌玉) and believed to have more information concerning reorganized 1st Div. PW heard that this man was captured once, however, escaped.
6. WEAPON:PW observed about 7x82mm mortars, 5x120mm mortars, 20xHMGs and 36xLMGs in each Bn. Each man was equipped with a rifle and 300 rds of ammo, and 4 hand grenades.
7. PERSONALITIES:| NAME | RANK | AGE | POSITION |
| HWANG, SOK (黃錫) (황석) | unk | About 45 | 1st Div Commander |
He was operational staff officer of CCF Div and also was Regt’l CO of CCF in MANCHURIA. He was believed to be a famous strategic officer, especially good at “False Retreat Strategy”.
8. CODE NUMBER:Subject was uncertain but he believes the code number for 14th Regt was 104 or 114.
9. MORALE:The morale of 1st Div was extremely high, especially 14th Regt, because 1st Div was mainly composed of well trained regular troops and CCF troops.
Food - 2 meals a day. Sufficient. Mainly rice, beans soup, and dry fish, vegetable and small quantity of meat.
10. CAPTURED EQUIPMENT:12 US HMGs, 4 mortars, M-1s and many communication sets were observed in 14th Regt. All captured US communication sets were utilized.
11. FOREIGN ELEMENT:2 Russian officers in civilian clothes (rank unk) were alwawys with 1st Div as military advisors and went as far as KUNWI and retreated to WONJU with 1st Div.
KNOWLEDGE OF CCF: One CCF Div was sent to NK from MANCHURIA around Aug 149 and was called 6th Div. 6th Div was composed of 3 Regts. One of 3 Regts was tho 14th Regt now with the 1st Div, and one was transferred to some other Div and one Regt remained with 6th Div.
12. ENEMY INTENTION:The objective of 1st, 3rd and 13th Divs was to retreat to the WONJU area and reorganize 1st Div and 13th with remainder of 3rd Div and newly recruited volunteer army in ODESAN (五台山) (which extends from North Korea to South Korea on cast coast) and to continue to fight with the aid of guerrilla units in, this area. The guerrilla unit is led by KIM, SANG HOH (金相鎬) and was organized in these mountains. 180 was believed to be located some place in the mountains. 180 guerrillas were assigned from his guerrilla unit to 14th Regt of 1st Div in Aug 150.
PW also stated that Korean Communist Party and Korean Young Communists Association wore working intensely to help organize new units and guerrilla units in that area.
¼ of the guerrillas led by KIM, SANG HOW are women. These guerrilla women dress in any convenient clothing, NK troop uniforms, US troop uniform, and civilian clothing.
Most of them have short hair cut like men.
Reorganized 1st and 13th Divs were determined to fight it out at ODESAN (五台山), and if they are defeated and can not retreat to North Korea, they will send out guerrilla units.
For the AC of S, G-2:
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