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This machinery shop, part of the ore refinery at the Chosen Nitrogen Fertilizer Factory at Konan, Korea, went out of business after the refinery was hit with 382 tons of bombs dropped by 24 Superforts of the U.S. Far East Air Force's Bomber Command August 24, 1950. The refinery and fertilizer factory formed a part of the Konan Industrial-Chemical Complex, largest in Korea.
It is the sad reality. No mistake...
9:26 am on August 23rd, 2010 1
Wow. 382 tons of bombs to take out a refinery and fertilizer factory or was it the entire industrial complex? We've come a long way.
9:39 am on August 23rd, 2010 2
Wouldn't it have been easier to drop some fuel oil and a Ryder truck?
4:34 pm on August 23rd, 2010 3
Back in the day, many factors played into determining the means used to achieve the destruction of this target. Imagine it had to do with the available aircraft, ordnance (e.g. 500-lb or 1,000-lb bombs, etc., including available fuzes), threat that may have driven altitude used to bomb from, effect of altitude on weapons dispersal, the weather, anticipated winds at various levels, target area, target composition, etc. Today, the same factors apply, though the existence of precision guided weapons has created many efficiencies in achieving desired effects. But whereas a single bomb today can take out a critical component and render a target non-operational for some period of time, this B-29 strike achieved a perhaps longer lasting effect in thoroughly demolishing this target, as suggested by the picture shown.
8:30 pm on August 24th, 2010 4
In the 1950 to take out factory with only 382 tons of dumb bombs is very good achievement. To take out similar german factory (for only 2-3 monts) in 1943-45 several thousand tons of bombs are used by USAF.
8:03 am on December 12th, 2011 5
The reason so many B-29s were needed is that the factory was more important than this website (or the U.S. Army) wished to reveal. The goal was to put the “refinery” out of business. Click on my website for a hint of what was being refined there, and the nature of the “Secret Project” that the Koreans (and the Soviets) were engaged in.