ATIS INTERROGATION REPORT NO. 2520 5 December 1950
The following information was obtained from a recovered American soldier, HUGHES, Anderson, SFC, RA15422570, who was interrogated upon his arrival in JAPAN from KOREA by ATIS, Central Interrogation Center. Interrogation was conducted at Tokyo General Hospital by Lts Nunley and Fusco.
Source was wounded and captured along with 30 other American and South Korean soldiers south of UNSAN on 2 Nov 50 by Chinese Communist Forces. After all were stripped of their watches by the Chinese they were left where wounded for two or three days, then moved to a nearby house. Here North Korean Security Forces stripped them of their clothing. After being left in the house for several days, the group was moved north by the Chinese, first by truck and later by stretcher bearers. The route taken was through UNSAN to ONJONG.
At ONJONG, source observed what he estimated to be about a regiment of Chinese troops and a convoy of fifteen to twenty trucks from which drums of gasoline and boxes, which looked like ammunition boxes, being unloaded. The Chinese were camouflaging the supplies with charred wood, ashes, etc from the completely burned-out town. This was o/a 12 Nov 50. The supplies being unloaded were being stored approx two or three city blocks south of the fork in the road where one road goes to the left in the direction of PUCKCHIN, and the other continues in a NE direction toward HOEMOKTONG.
From ONJONG, source was moved to a field hospital located two or three miles NE of PUCKCHIN. There, doctors set his broken leg and placed a cast on it.
Chinese Interpreter, Leo, told the prisoners that they would be sent to CHINA to study Communism. This was before the Chinese decided to release only the American soldiers on 24 Nov 50.
For the CO, TIS:
AURELL
