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"Invalid Item"  The Importance of Numbers Monday, April 14, 1969, early afternoon, cold, blustery north wind. Skivvy Nine (USA-31) - a small intelligence gathering unit, ten-foot, razor wire topped perimeter fence, Hill 170, Osan AB, Korea. In the south wing of the building, six of us, maybe seven, shocked, perplexed; huddled at the large-scale plexiglas covered map set hard against the wall - Korean peninsula, surrounding area ranging from Vladivostok at the top to Cheju-do near the floor - roughly 150 nautical miles coverage to the left of the peninsular landmass, 300 to the right. On the map a single black grease pencil trail traces the six-hour to-and-fro path of our EC-121 over waters 100 miles or so off the northern coast of North Korea - two scarlet red traces give evidence to a completed half-hour intercepting flight by a pair of MIG-21s based in Chongjin, North Korea. Fifteen feet distant, toward the north end of the wing - radio intercept equipment; five morse code & three voice racks, operators feverishly copying and scribing NKAF intercept at each. North Korean morse ops who had been sending normal code are now sending a three digit number that is not listed in our latest code books. Voice traffic consists solely of routine landing instructions. All target morse stations being copied continue to send 746, 746, 746... As I pencil in 746 at the last EC-121 position noted, the map gives way to a view high above the Sea of Japan, about 150 miles southeast of Chongjin - below, the seas are heavy, deep and bitterly cold. ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** |
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