page_title: Attack on the Sui-ho Dam
section_title: UN air order of battle, June 1952
hierarchical_section_title: Attack on the Sui-ho Dam / Background and plans / UN air order of battle, June 1952
caption_attribution_description: USAF F-51 in Korea Source: USAF Museum photo http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/050429-F-1234P-001.jpg
context_page_description: The attack on the Sui-ho Dam was the collective name for a series of mass air attacks during the Korean War on thirteen hydroelectric generating facilities by United Nations Command air forces as part of the North Korean bombing campaign on June 23–24 and June 26–27, 1952. Primarily targeting the hydroelectric complex associated with the Sui-ho Dam in North Korea, the attacks were intended to apply political pressure at the stalled truce negotiations at Panmunjeom.
  Heavily defended by Soviet Air Forces and major anti-aircraft guns, the hydroelectric targets were subjected to attacks totaling 1,514 sorties. These were conducted jointly by fighters and fighter-bombers of the United States Air Force, United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and South African Air Force, the first time in 21 months that the separate air arms had worked together on a massive scale. The attack on the facilities was followed seventeen days later by another series of large-scale joint attacks on the capital city of Pyongyang.
context_section_description: SOURCES: USAF Historical Study No. 127 and History of US Naval Operations, Korea 
  The following air combat units were assigned to the attacks on the North Korean hydroelectric plants:
  Far East Air Forces - Lt. Gen. Otto P. Weyland
  Fifth Air Force - Lt. Gen. Glenn O. Barcus
  4th Fighter-Interceptor Group - Col. Royal N. Baker
  334th FIS, 335th FIS, 336th FIS
  51st Fighter-Interceptor Group - Lt. Col. Albert S. Kelly
  16th FIS, 25th FIS, 39th FIS
  8th Fighter-Bomber Group - Col. Levi R. Chase
  35th FBS, 36th FBS, 80th FBS
  18th Fighter-Bomber Group - Col. Sheldon S. Brinson
  12th FBS, 67th FBS, 2 Sqd SAAF
  49th Fighter-Bomber Group - Lt. Col. Gordon F. Blood
  7th FBS, 8th FBS, 9th FBS
  136th Fighter-Bomber Group -Lt. Col. Donald F. Sharp
  111th FBS, 154th FBS, 182nd FBS
  1st Marine Aircraft Wing - Maj. Gen. Clayton C. Jerome
  Marine Aircraft Group 12
  VMA-121, VMA-212, VMA-323
  Marine Aircraft Group 33
  VMF-115, VMF-311
  Naval Forces Far East - Vice Adm. Robert P. Briscoe
  Seventh Fleet - Vice Adm. Joseph J. Clark
  Task Force 77 - Rear Adm. Apollo Soucek
  Carrier Division One - Rear Adm. Herbert E. Regan
  Carrier Air Group Seven, embarked on Bon Homme Richard - Cmdr. G. B. Brown
  VF-71, VF-72, VF-74, VA-75
  Carrier Air Group Eleven, embarked on Philippine Sea - Cmdr. J.W. Onstott
  VF-112, VF-113, VF-114, VA-115
  Carrier Division Three - Rear Adm. Soucek
  Carrier Air Group Two, embarked on Boxer - Cmdr. A.L. Downing
  VF-24, VF-63, VF-64, VA-65
  Carrier Air Group Nineteen, embarked on Princeton - Cmdr. William Denton, Jr.
  VF-191, VF-192, VF-193, VA-195
caption: F-51K of 67th FBS, 18th FBG
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