Panmunjon, Korea. Tree pruning incident 18 August 1976, at the Joint Security Area (Panmunjon) within the Demilitarized Zone separating Norht Korea and Sourh Korea. In this incident, two UNC guard officers of the US Army, Major Arthur G. Bonifas and 1st Lt. Mark T. Barrett, were hacked to death by a gang of more than thirty North Korean Security Guards. Some of the North Korean Guards got axes that the KSC workmen were using to prune the tree and used them on the UNC Guards which resulted in the deaths of the two US Army Officers

Panmunjon, Korea. Tree pruning incident 18 August 1976, at the Joint Security Area (Panmunjon) within the Demilitarized Zone separating Norht Korea and Sourh Korea. In this incident, two UNC guard officers of the US Army, Major Arthur G. Bonifas and 1st Lt. Mark T. Barrett, were hacked to death by a gang of more than thirty North Korean Security Guards. Some of the North Korean Guards got axes that the KSC workmen were using to prune the tree and used them on the UNC Guards which resulted in the deaths of the two US Army Officers Stock Photo
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Imago History Collection / Alamy Stock Photo

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3045 x 2679 px | 25.8 x 22.7 cm | 10.2 x 8.9 inches | 300dpi

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7 May 2019

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