Pratt, Rear Admiral Richard, 293, 329, 331–32, 350
Presidential elections
1964, 105, 107
1968, 224, 261
Prisoner of War Medal, 366–72
Pueblo, Colorado, 337–38, 374–75
Puget Sound, 12
Pyongyang, North Korea, 92–93, 151, 178, 373
Raborn, Admiral William, 288
Ravens, 2
Rawlings, Bob, 375
RB-29 reconnaissance aircraft, 1
RB-47 reconnaissance aircraft, 309, 312, 343
RC-135 spy plane, 4–5
Reagan, Ronald, 225, 278, 369
Reuther, Walter, 191
Richardson, Bill, 375
Rigby, Ship’s Storekeeper Dale, 181, 183, 210
Ritter, CT David, 259
Ritter, Elizabeth and Caspar, 259–60
Rivers, Mendel, 340
Robot (North Korean room daddy), 190–91, 219, 221–23, 243, 282
Rodman, Dennis, 376
Rooney, Mickey, 35
Rosales, Seaman Ramon, 217, 244, 328–29
Rosenberg, Admiral Edwin, 273–75, 290
Rostow, Walt, 105, 108, 119, 156, 275, 308
Rusk, Dean, 105, 106, 112, 113, 116, 160, 181, 228–29, 253, 260, 281
Russell, Richard, 281–82
Russell, Seaman Stu, 145, 194, 206, 208, 215–16, 240, 241, 286, 367, 371
Ryan, General John, 346
Sabatini, Rafael, 35
Sachon River, 261
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 281
Salisbury, Harrison, 257
San Diego naval base, 14–15, 18–19
San Diego Union, 282, 371
Sasebo naval base, Japan, 44–46, 48, 77, 78
Saturday Evening Post, 301
Scar (North Korean colonel), 85–87, 146–48
Scarborough, Engineman William, 328
Schumacher, Ensign F. Carl “Skip,” 7–8, 15–17, 19–21, 28, 33, 39, 42, 44, 51–54, 61–63, 65, 66, 70, 71, 76, 77, 92, 93, 98, 137–38, 145, 146, 148, 186–88, 190, 209, 212, 215, 237, 248, 264, 269, 273, 279, 283, 284, 313, 323, 349, 356, 362, 366, 370
Sea of Japan, 1, 2, 5, 8, 30, 32, 41, 50, 53, 59, 106, 108, 113, 124, 166, 307, 308, 339, 341
Second in Command (Murphy), 357
Senate Armed Services Committee, 167, 215, 282
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 126
Seoul, South Korea, 55–57
Sharp, Admiral Ulysses S. Grant, 81, 166, 307, 342, 344–47
Sheck, Eugene, 343–44
Shepard, CT Jim, 216
Shingleton, Seaman John, 206
Siberia, 2
Sidey, Hugh, 121
Silver Lips (North Korean translator), 147, 180, 188, 243, 247, 249, 356
Sinchon, North Korea, 241–43
Situation report (SITREP), 55, 59, 63, 65
Six-Day War of 1967, 13–14, 200
Slatinshek, Frank, 346, 347
Smith, General Holland M. “Howlin’ Mad,” 158
Smith, Marion, 160–61
Smith, Rear Admiral John Victor, 158–61, 198, 227, 228, 233
Snake (North Korean duty officer), 209
Solomatin, Boris, 321
Songjin, North Korea, 52, 53
South Korea, 42
communist infiltration of, 55–58, 80, 110, 115, 128, 153–54, 156, 157, 165, 167, 170–72, 174, 198–99, 225, 226, 255, 309, 311
covert counterattacks by, 171
DMZ (demilitarized zone), 42, 57, 58, 107, 114, 126, 128, 129, 154, 155, 159, 171, 226, 309
Japan, relations with, 163, 165
Park’s leadership of, 162–65
Pueblo seizure, reaction to, 161–62
troops in Vietnam, 110, 156, 157, 165, 168, 173, 196, 198, 201–2, 227
U.S. force buildup and, 124–25
U.S. military aid to, 157, 163, 164, 168, 171, 177, 200, 202, 203
U.S. troops in, 4, 97, 107, 115, 125, 164, 199, 255, 310
Vance visit to, 169–77
South Korean Air Force, 80–81
South Pacific islands, 7
Soviet Union, 10
airpower, 1, 2, 125
naval operations, 1, 2, 30–32, 37, 48, 124–25, 320
North Korea and, 152, 153, 177–78, 204, 340
Pueblo seizure and, 109–10, 113, 118–19, 177, 228–29, 318, 322
Vietnam War and, 201
Walker spy ring and, 320–22
Spaulding, Captain Raymond, 283–84, 363
Special Operations Department (“SOD hut”), 11, 20 (see also CTs)
Specs (North Korean room daddy), 191
Stalin, Joseph, 152, 192
Staring, Rear Admiral Merlin, 352–53
State, U.S. Department of, 17, 160, 224, 230–34, 256, 259, 262, 266, 307
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, 118
Steakley, General Ralph, 342
Sterling, CT Charles, 187
Stethem, Robert, 379
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 35
Strano, CT Angelo, 206, 210, 213, 244
Strategic Air Command, 107–8
Stratton, Samuel, 305
Strickland, Fireman Larry, 328
Stryker, Lieutenant Phil, 123
Styx missiles, 128
Subic Bay naval base, Philippines, 37, 361
Super C, later Glorious General (North Korean Lieutenant General), 100–1, 130, 134–37, 144, 147–49, 180, 187, 188, 192–95, 207, 208, 211, 213, 215, 218–20, 222, 223, 236–39, 241–42, 244–46, 263, 264, 283, 300, 301, 329
Sweden, 155
Sweet Pea (North Korean guard), 194
Sweitzer, Captain Henry, 122
Swerdfeger, Keith, 376
Switzerland, 155
Syria, 200
Taedong River, 93, 373
Taiwan, 119
Taylor, General Maxwell, 125
Tet offensive, 107, 196, 201
Thailand, 201
Thompson, Llewellyn, 110
Thurmond, Strom, 109
Tiemann, Norbert, 338, 339
Time magazine, 121, 244–45, 287, 315, 363
Tokyo Bay, 28
Tractor Driver, The (movie), 182
Tracy, Spencer, 35
Truman, Harry, 109
Tsushima Strait, 44, 50, 307
Tuck, Dunnie “Friar,” 53, 60, 61, 65–66, 193, 241, 324, 377, 379
Tumen River, 52
Turkey, 169
TWA Flight 847, 378
U-2 aircraft, 4
Uh Je-yeon, General, 375
Ung-do, North Korea, 59, 61
Uniform Code of Military Justice, 295
United Nations, 113, 116, 119–20, 128, 283, 341
U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, 200
U.S. Armed Forces Radio, 244
U.S. Eighth Army, 160
U.S. 18th Tactical Fighter Wing, 81, 347
U.S. Fifth Air Force, 79, 89, 310, 346
U.S. Mine Flotilla One, 361
U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego, 271, 279
U.S. Pacific Fleet, 275
U.S. 2nd Armored Division, 227–28
U.S. 2nd Infantry Division, 56, 154
U.S. Seventh Fleet, 310, 345
U.S. Submarine Flotilla Seven, 37–38, 122
USS Banner, 10, 22, 30–32, 36, 39, 62, 65, 79, 99, 252, 307, 308, 310, 311, 314
USS Besugo, 37, 278
USS Birmingham, 293
USS Chesapeake, 126
USS Coral Sea, 78
USS Enterprise, 77–79, 81, 108, 113, 116, 117, 124, 125, 129, 165–66, 168, 310, 341, 342, 345–47, 352, 365
USS Forrestal, 352
USS Gar, 293
USS George Washington, 3
USS Liberty, 13–14, 39
USS Maddox, 292
USS Maine, 290
USS Mount McKinley, 36
USS Mullany, 307
USS New Jersey, 341
USS Ozbourn, 116, 117
USS Princeton, 293
USS Pueblo
American reaction to seizure of, 105–16, 119–21, 125–29, 156, 159, 166–67, 175, 181, 197–98, 212, 224–25, 230, 232, 234, 255, 257–61, 281, 290–91, 339