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ATIS-ALLIED TRANSLATOR & INTERPRETER SECTION-FEC

ATIS INTERROGATION REPORT NO. 1800　12 October 1950

FIELD REPORT (ADVATIS - 1109)　10 October 1950

PW did not appear to be too intelligent. He lacked information on the exact nature of his unit. He was cooperative.

1 Aug 50: PW was inducted into the Security Force at HWANGJU (黃州) and received one month’s training.

11 Sep 50: PW arrived in SEOUL on foot with 40 other recruits from HWANGJU. Here the PW and the 40 others were assigned to the 556th Unit. When PW arrived in SEOUL the Hq staff of the 556th Unit was there. After PW’s arrival, recruits arrived and the 556th Unit came into existence as a unit. The 556th aand ten (10) rifle platoons. From SEOUL the unit was deployed by platoons.

o/a 15 Sep 50: PW’s 5th Plt departed SEOUL.

o/a 22 Sep 50: Arrived in SANCH’ONG on foot.

o/a 24 Sep 50: Platoon was ordered to retreat.

o/a 24 Sep 50: Passed through ANUI (安義).

o/a 26 Sep 50: Arrived in TAEJON. Here the 5th platoon was split up, since UN troops were in CHOCH’IWON. The plt ldr gave the men 1,500 won each and told the men to travel in two or threes. He told the men to gather at KUMHWA (金化) in North KOREA, and ICH’ON (伊川) as an alternate assembly point.

o/a 27 Sep 50: PW and two others arrived at a ponit 12 km NW of POUN where they met an unknown Bn of NK troops. There PW left the group and waked toward POUN.

o/a 28 Sep 50: PW voluntarily surrendered to ROK troops in POUN.

The 556th Unit wore NKA uniforms but came directly under the Ministry of Interior. The 556th Unit Hq was located in SEOUL as of 11 Sep 50. The 556th Unit Hq was composed of 10 guard platoons, numbered from one to ten respectively. As of 11 Sep 50 each

platoon had 40 men. The function of each plt was to control traffic and guard roads in occupied areas. Plts were deployed throughout South KOREA. The 1st platoon was in SEOUL, the 4th Plt in CHINJU, the 5th Plt in SANCH’ONG (山淸) and the 10th in TAEJON.

Each rifleman had either a US (M1917), US (M1903) or a Japanese M-99 rifle. Each rifleman had 100-200 rounds of M-99 ammunition, but no US 30 caliber ammunition was available. Consequently men who carried US M1917 or M1903 carried Japanese M-99 ammunition although the ammunition would not fit their rifle.

When the PW’s platoon dispersed at TAEJON o/a 26 Sep 50, the platoon leader told the men to assemble in KUMHWA in N. KOREA as soon as possible.

On 27 Sep 50 PW saw roughly 400-500 troops led by a Col at a point 12 km SW of POUN. All but about 4 of the troops were armed with PPsh Submachine guns. PW could not identify the unit, but they told him they were going to N. KOREA.

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