ATIS INTERROGATION REPORT NO. 3938 10 March 1951
FIELD REPORT (7th Div (4) LDI - 122) 14 February 1951
| NAME: | KIM Sok Chun |
| RANK: | Pvt |
| AGE: | 31 |
| UNIT: | I Corps, 505th Regt, HUNBOK Unit, 2nd Unit, 1st Platoon, 1st Squad |
| DUTIES IN UNIT: | Rifleman |
| PLACE OF CAPTURE OR SURRENDER: | GAMPYONG NI |
| DATE: | 7 Feb 51 |
| CAPTURING UNIT: | ROK Unit |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | CHUNGCHONG PUKTO, NISAN GUN, YONPUNG MYON, ISAN NI, 467 |
| HOME ADDRESS: | Same as above |
| CIVILIAN OCCUPATION: | Farmer |
| EDUCATION: | None |
| INTERROGATOR: | TAGUCHI |
Cooperative.
a. Chronology:
PW conscripted at CHONGJU 25 Sep 50. Assigned to a unit, designation u/k, strength - 2,000, on the same day. Unit left CHONGJU 25 Sep 50 and arrived KITTUN RI, SOPAEK SAN on/about 30 Oct 50.
Re-assigned to 505th Regt, I Corps, at KITTUN RI o/a 3 Nov 50. 505th Regt a guerrila unit and was on it’s way to south and PW a South Korean was transferred to this unit. His original unit headed towards North (PENANG), o/a 6 Nov 50 and arrived ODAE SAN 8 Nov 50. I Corps stayed in ODAE SAN area a few days then departed south and arrived at an area about 4 Km North of YONGCHUN o/a 23 Dec 50.
200 guerrilla members of 505th and 507th Regt, I Corps, attacked the YONGCHUN MYON Youth Corps at dawn 27 Dec 50 and captured 30 members of the Youth Corps. Captured Youth Corps members later integrated into various units in the I Corps.
I Corps departed YONGCHUN area o/a 29 Dec 50 to a south and arrived GUMPYONG NI, CHILSON MOYN, KIPSN GUN, CHUNCHONG PUKTO 7 Feb 51.
PW, upon arriving GAMPYONG NI, became sick and dropped out and was captured by a ROK unit on the same day.
b. Mission
Heard from KIM “Hun Bok”, leader of the “Hun Bok” unit, about 20 days ago, that the tactical objective of the I Corps is to proceed to CHIRI SAN and to carry out guerrilla warfare.
c. Organization and personnel
Original strength of I Corps at KITTUN RI, SOPACK SAN, was 1,500, however, strength at GAMPYONG RI was 1,000.
I Corps composed of the following units:
| Operation Department: | Personnel - 100 |
| Political Department: | 〃 - 100 |
| Tactical Department: | 〃 - 100 |
| 505th Regt (Hun Sok Unit): | Personnel - 80 |
| 506th Regt (Han Il Unit): | 〃 - 100 |
| 507th Regt: | Personnel - 100 |
| 508th Regt: | 〃 - 150 |
| People’s Brigade: | 〃 - 100 |
505th Regt composed of 1st and 2d units with estimated strength of 40 each.
There were about 35 female guerrilla members in I Corps. 500 casualties. Causes of casulty is given as follows:
UN Air Attacks: 30 KIA - a large number WIA (5 attacks)
UN Artillery Fires:
Disease: Frostbite, flu and etc.
d. Weapons: I Corps weapons were given as follows:
| 4 | 82mm Mortars (40 rd) one mortars not operative. |
| 1 | 60mm Mortar (40 rd) |
| 5 | HMG (300 rd ea) |
| 7 | LMG (1,000 rd ea) |
| 400 | US M-1 Rifle & US Carbines (100 rd ea) |
| u/k | Russian 1891/30 Rifles (200 rd ea) |
| Every one out of five guerrillas armed with 1 hand grenade. | |
| 100 | PPSH SMG (100 rd ea) |
For the AC of S, G-2:
THE INTERROGATION OFFICER
