主题：【原创】百战鹰扬 -- 采访志愿军老兵难忘一页 -- 萨苏

by Walter G. Hermes

While Clark was speaking, the guns along the front continued to bellow out their lethal salutes. Ground activity had come to a halt, but artillery and mortar fire lasted until the end. In the air the UNC planes pounded North Korean airfields, rail lines, and road systems in a

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last-ditch effort to curtail Communist activities until the supervisory commission and its inspection teams could begin to function. The air program, carried out by Air Force, Navy, and Marine aircraft, had been intensified during the last week of the fighting, but unfortunately, inclement flying weather had permitted the enemy to bring a number of airplanes into Korea before the armistice was signed.36 On the sea naval warships bombarded Kosong and finally ended the longest naval siege in history by shelling Wonsan for the last time.37 When the clock hands reached 2200 the guns fell silent across Korea and the shooting war was over.