The AP research was thorough--130 interviews including all 24 Korean survivors.

Pomfret continued to shell small craft and pick up Japanese and Korean survivors until the cessation of hostilities 15 August 1945.

In 1997, 30 South Korean survivors and relatives of the victims filed a suit asking for compensation for the incident, but the suit was rejected on a technicality.

In April a judge in Yamaguchi District Court ruled in favor of three Korean survivors' claims and ordered the Government to pay them reparations.

(Co-author Hanley later published a more extensive analysis of what the Korean survivors described as a "whitewash.")

The authors conducted some 500 interviews, chiefly with 24 ex-soldier witnesses and 36 Korean survivors.

More disturbing still have been the published testimonies of Korean survivors who recall such killings, and the frank accounts of those American veterans brave enough to admit involvement.

They'd have their hands full with Chimera's crew and North Korean survivors without having to take on KorCom armor as well.

The massacre first gained worldwide attention through Associated Press articles in 1999 in which 7th Cavalry veterans corroborated Korean survivors' accounts.

After the war, they returned home, and one result is that the town has the highest concentration of Korean atomic-bomb survivors, 2,000 people.