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'Panmunjom axe murder incident') was the killing of two United Nations Command officers, Captain Arthur Bonifas and First Lieutenant Mark Barrett, by North Korean soldiers on August 18, 1976, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
Jun 10, 2018 · That morning, Bonifas and his deputy, First Lieutenant Mark Barrett, headed toward the Bridge of No Return with a team of security guards and South Korean laborers to trim a 40-foot poplar tree.
Aug 18, 2021 · On Aug. 18, 1976, Capt. Arthur Bonifas, a Joint Security Force company commander, and 1st Lt. Mark Barrett, a platoon leader, were slain while trimming a tree at the Joint Security Area of the...
On Aug. 18, 1976, ax-wielding North Korean soldiers murdered Capt. Bonifas and 1st Lt. Mark Barrett during a tree-trimming operation within the Demilitarized Zone.
Jan 31, 2023 · On August 18, 1976, a team of five Korean Special Corps (KSC) personnel and a UNC security escort made up of US Army Capt. Arthur Bonifas, South Korean Army Capt. Kim, 1st Lt. Mark Barrett and 11 other enlisted men entered the Joint Security Area to trim the tree.
Out climbed a crew of five civilian maintenance workers, all of them Korean, and a ten-man security platoon led by Lieutenant Mark Barrett, a South Carolinian who’d been in Korea only a few weeks. Barrett’s boss was there, too.
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Jan 7, 2024 · US Army officers Captain Arthur Bonifas and First Lieutenant Mark Barrett were part of a UN work party pruning a tree located on the southern side of the demarcation line.
