1.
SV AMERICAN SOLDIER LOOKS THROUGH BINOCULARS PAN TO GV OF BORDER AREA
0.10

2.
CU LOOKS THROUGH PERISCOPE.
0.13

3.
LV PAN LOOKOUT POST.
0.25

4.
LV DAMAGED OBSERVATION POST.
0.28

5.
CU SPLINTERED GLASS
0.32

6.
SV AMERICAN SOLDIERS LOOK AT DAMAGE.
0.35

7.
CU DAMAGED GLASS.
0.39

8.
SV AMERICAN SOLDIER LOOKS THROUGH GLASSES.
0.42

9.
CU SIGN POST, PAN TO BORDER AREA.
0.48

10.
LV HOSPITAL.
0.52

11.
CU SIGN: "SURGICAL HOSPITAL".
0.55

12.
SV INT..WOUNDED AMERICAN PRIVATE OLIVIO ON BED.
0.58

13.
CU PRIVATE OLIVIO.
1.02

14.
SV NURSE AT BEDSIDE
1.06

15.
CU INJURED FOOT AND TILT UP TO OLIVIO
1.10

16.
CU X-RAY SHOWS BOMB FRAGMENTS.
1.15

17.
SV REPORTERS ASK QUESTIONS.
1.19

18.
CU OLIVIO SPEAKS.
1.22

19.
CU REPORTERS WRITE.
1.26

20.
LV OLIVIO SPEAKS TO REPORTER.
1.30



Initials KC/S/JH/BB



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Background: IN ONE OF THE FEW INCIDENTS REPORTED BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA SINCE THE ARMISTICE IN JULY 1953, ONE UNITED NATIONS COMMAND SOLDIER WAS KILLED AND ANOTHER INJURED LAST TUESDAY (NOVEMBER 20). BOTH WERE MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN FORCES SERVING IN SOUTH KOREA.

A UNITED NATIONS COMMAND SPOKESMAN, SERVING WITH THE UNITED STATES EIGHT ARMY IN KOREA, DESCRIBED THE INCIDENT AS A "VICIOUS, UNPROVOKED GRENADE ATTACK" BY NORTH KOREAN PERSONNEL.

THE SPOKESMAN SAID THAT IN AN ATTACK UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS, MEN OF THE NORTH KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY ATTACKED A UNITED NATIONS COMMAND OBSERVATION POST, MANNED BY TWO SOLDIERS, OVERLOOKING KOREA'S DEMILITARISED ZONE, NEAR PANMUNJOM.

IT WAS REPORTED TO BE THE FIRST KNOWN ATTACK BY MEMBERS OF THE NORTH KOREAN ARMY ON AN AMERICAN-MANNED OBSERVATION POST SINCE THE ARMISTICE WAS SIGNED IN JULY 1953.

ACCORDING TO AN INVESTIGATION BY THE UNITED NATIONS COMMAND, FIVE F-1 RUSSIAN FRAGMENTATION-TYPE GRENADES WERE USED IN THE ATTACK. THREE EXPLODED ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE OBSERVATION POST AND ONE UNEXPLODED GRENADE WAS ALSO FOUND OUTSIDE.

THE INJURED MAN, PRIVATE EFRIAN OLIVIO, FROM PUERTO RICO, WHO HAD MULTIPLE WOUNDS ON BOTH FEET FROM GRENADE FRAGMENTS, WAS TAKEN TO THE NEARBY 44TH SURGICAL HOSPITAL.

THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE EXTENDS FOR 155 MILES, SEPARATING NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA. THE SOUTHERN LIMITS OF THE ZONE ARE PATROLLED BY THE UNITED NATIONS COMMAND, MANNED MAINLY BY TROOPS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (SOUTH KOREA). ALTHOUGH THE ATTACK WAS MADE ON NOVEMBER 20, DETAILS WERE NOT ANNOUNCED BY THE UNITED NATIONS COMMAND UNTIL NOVEMBER 22.