WEBVTT 00:02.740 --> 00:07.070 Nursery of the korean war which lasted from 19 50 to 53 it was 00:07.070 --> 00:11.180 the first armed conflict of the cold war era as a seventeen-year-old 00:11.210 --> 00:14.790 infantry men. Private david mills was involved in a bloody battle 00:14.790 --> 00:19.380 for outpost hairy. It's small hill in the current korean demilitarized 00:19.380 --> 00:23.090 zone now after the fierce fire fight mills was taken prisoner 00:23.120 --> 00:27.030 by the chinese staff sergeant Dion Moses has his dramatic. Story. 00:29.150 --> 00:33.630 Or more than 40 400 American troops were taken prisoner in can 00:33.630 --> 00:37.470 spread across north korea. Many of the pure Debbie's became victims 00:37.470 --> 00:41.460 of war crimes. David mills 17 years old and just out of high 00:41.460 --> 00:45.480 school was captured in the waning months of the war after fierce firefight. 00:46.280 --> 00:49.870 The russell nose of catch echoed from hill to he'll hear back 00:49.870 --> 00:51.040 on august nineteenth. 00:51.600 --> 00:56.700 Those 3600 gi screech anchored to issues korean ornamentation 00:56.700 --> 00:57.400 trick U.S. 00:57.400 --> 01:01.610 army. Of the candy regimen held memorial services for their dead. 01:02.980 --> 01:04.910 Including for western new Yorkers. 01:05.670 --> 01:08.680 Then a cow was published in a buffalo new york newspaper a high 01:08.680 --> 01:13.070 this 19 53 at first private mills was believed to have been killed 01:13.070 --> 01:13.520 in action. 01:14.270 --> 01:16.410 And I am and crown with us the 01:17.950 --> 01:18.990 And one company of. 01:20.300 --> 01:21.120 Killed in action. 01:22.450 --> 01:23.900 Prior to having the. Us. 01:27.790 --> 01:28.300 Who. Work. 01:32.060 --> 01:33.620 All the other. Men. 01:35.840 --> 01:37.340 Your died on a chris. Herring. 01:40.290 --> 01:40.760 That night. 01:41.540 --> 01:45.010 Outpost kerry whether a molehill about 60 miles north of Seoul 01:45.470 --> 01:48.720 the chinese really turning to take it to allies were committed 01:48.720 --> 01:52.240 to holding it at all costs the consumer today in my mind sigh. 01:52.980 --> 01:56.300 Just like it was I was a member of Arch company. 01:57.170 --> 02:00.660 For the fifteenth infantry regiment of the third infantry division. 02:01.840 --> 02:04.230 And on the 20 fourth of april. 02:05.220 --> 02:06.670 We were attacked. 02:07.270 --> 02:12.320 By a very large superior numbered chinese for so battalion string. 02:13.140 --> 02:14.850 Someone over a thousand men. 02:15.650 --> 02:19.340 And it turned out that we had the man holding this out because. 02:20.600 --> 02:23.150 The a attackers ferocious. 02:23.980 --> 02:25.010 We were over run. 02:25.950 --> 02:28.740 Hand-to-hand fighting occurred and all the trenches. 02:29.570 --> 02:31.570 Very hairy losses were so for. 02:32.090 --> 02:33.280 On both sides. 02:33.890 --> 02:38.350 Had any are found himself alone facing a group of chinese so 02:38.460 --> 02:42.900 are proof rage magazine and might be a or a high of the by approach 02:42.900 --> 02:43.940 tied up long for. 02:45.500 --> 02:47.750 And I stepped down until a trench a. 02:49.010 --> 02:49.800 The face them. 02:50.840 --> 02:53.910 And another grew they came in a one-off between my. Legs. 02:56.030 --> 02:59.640 I'm there was it was small cheap that through a smoker could say. 03:01.700 --> 03:04.380 A the six or seven on that. 03:05.970 --> 03:07.420 And so on. 03:08.280 --> 03:11.230 Flesh this is all have to split seconds. 03:12.080 --> 03:13.630 Them also fleisher overcome. 03:14.390 --> 03:17.170 Well maybe 15 feet away from me. 03:18.030 --> 03:19.630 Therefore for lecture immersed. 03:20.360 --> 03:22.990 Kilmarth. And the home. 03:23.840 --> 03:24.970 Other grenade one of. 03:25.770 --> 03:29.050 Maybe 10 feet away at ticket capping and right lake. 03:30.160 --> 03:33.150 I believe I had loans are fraud until wicker victors sister. 03:33.150 --> 03:37.310 While gated males had a list of six months earlier on a 17 earthy 03:37.750 --> 03:42.010 turnabout from post kerry fox company suffered 72 casualties 03:42.240 --> 03:43.180 mills as one of them. 03:43.820 --> 03:45.390 But it was wounded nine times. 03:46.900 --> 03:49.990 And two in the section links. 03:50.740 --> 03:51.980 And one so the left arm. 03:53.270 --> 03:56.410 I'm very because for a pendrill age. 03:58.280 --> 04:01.430 Bayonets. I thought those go there. 04:02.450 --> 04:05.680 There was a point when a chinese soldier aimed at an airport 04:05.680 --> 04:06.530 that that their own. 04:07.310 --> 04:09.900 And having been brought up in a family of eight. 04:10.480 --> 04:11.270 I know where to go. 04:12.920 --> 04:14.390 I pray difference are. 04:14.990 --> 04:16.910 Very quick very sure. 04:17.460 --> 04:18.510 Not flowery. 04:19.190 --> 04:22.980 Not for the Oh god have mercy on my soul. 04:23.600 --> 04:27.300 A fairly was taken prisoner at first he said he was beaten in 04:27.300 --> 04:31.190 the anyone of being interrogated by chinese officer for scores 04:31.190 --> 04:31.800 from works. 04:33.770 --> 04:35.930 There any japanese troops in your lines. 04:36.770 --> 04:40.150 The second question was why the americans for its of are certainly 04:40.150 --> 04:40.660 a corner. 04:42.730 --> 04:44.250 And a third question was. 04:44.770 --> 04:45.620 Are your Krishnan. 04:46.240 --> 04:50.100 Afterward he was in mistreated the living conditions or far from comparable. 04:50.810 --> 04:52.120 I was place and the engine. 04:53.420 --> 04:55.550 Which was Not. 04:56.180 --> 04:58.980 Crying out for media standard or. 04:59.960 --> 05:02.460 He was not long enough for me a stretch up straight. 05:03.200 --> 05:06.880 I know interest negotiations ultimately paid out no no peace 05:06.880 --> 05:10.880 treaty was ever signed an armistice was agreed to on july 20 05:10.880 --> 05:14.090 seventh 19 53 fires repatriated on. 05:14.720 --> 05:18.290 All this a 24 19 53 four months for the day. 05:19.400 --> 05:22.120 When I was taken prisoner and arrived home. 05:23.070 --> 05:25.100 Three weeks before my eighteenth birthday. 05:25.880 --> 05:28.810 Reporting for the Pentagon and stats rj pianos that's..