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50s Frogs Magazine Vol. 12 Carrico’s
Corner Page 7
Team members, Korean troops and ship's crew all mingle on fantail of APD Begore off Korea - 1951
Preface: An old Teammate from Team Three, Jan Horton
and I put our heads together to write about our Team’s operation of
inserting Korean saboteurs into
North Korea
in 1951. We never knew what
their mission was; our job was to get ‘em there along with all their
supplies, weapons, radios, etc.
This operation happened only
57 years ago- so we should have no trouble remembering details-right?
The South Korean Army had a
problem-the needed to get this particular group of specially trained Korean
troops into enemy country. For what reason, other than general disruption, we
never found out.
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They approached our Navy with the problem and the Navy
contacted our Team Skipper and asked, “Can you guys do it ???...Aye, Aye, Sir, was the reply--
Our transport at the time
was the high speed transport USS Begor
APD `127. We picked up troops and all their gear at
Pusan
. As you know an APD has two
passageways going down each side of the little ship. Our Team slept on one
side the Koreans on the other. All the gear they they brought aboard was
lashed down on the fantail…
In the several days they
were aboard we got to know
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