Dry River (Primorsky Territory)

The Dry River is located on the river of the same name, 2 km from its confluence with Perevoznaya Bay of the Amur Bay . The village is connected by a 26 km road with the A189 Razdolnoye - Khasan highway . The distance to the regional center, the village of Slavyanka , is 54 km along the road, to Vladivostok - about 154 km. The nearest railway station Kedrovaya is located 1 km to the south.

The village was founded in 1921 ^[2] .

US Air Force Attack on Dry River Airfield

On October 8, 1950 at 16:17 local time (the Korean War was then), a military airfield located 2 kilometers southeast of the village was attacked by two US Air Force fighter Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star (Meteor) ) As a result of this raid, seven Soviet aircraft were damaged, one of them completely burned down (it was a Bell P-63 Kingcobra aircraft , previously supplied by the USA to the USSR under Lend-Lease ). At that moment, the 821st fighter regiment of the 190th air division , whose aircraft were attacked, was temporarily relocated to this airdrome, which belonged to Pacific Fleet aviation. Of the personnel, no one was hurt. ^{[3] [4]} .

The day after the raid, a representative of the USSR made an official protest at the UN . 11 days later, US President Harry Truman made a statement in which he pleaded guilty to the United States, proposed "... to provide funds to compensate for any damage to Soviet property" and announced that the commander of the US Air Force regiment in the Far East was relieved of his post, and the pilots given to the tribunal. ^[four]

Later, American pilots attributed their actions to a navigation error (there was no radio navigation then); red stars with a white rim on the fuselages of aircraft, the pilots took for the identification marks of the North Koreans ^[4] . At the same time, opinions were expressed that this was a provocation of the American side ^[3] .

Direct attack participants

• Olton Kwonbeck - 22 years of service in the Air Force, then before retiring he worked in the CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee ( United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence ) ^[4]
• Allen Diefendorf - served 33 years in the Air Force, died in 1996.

• The memorial complex of five nameless military graves of 1938 - 1945 .
• Mass grave of the Heroes of the Soviet Union Alexei Makhalin and Vasily Vinevitin , as well as the Makhalins - I. Shmelev, V. Pozdeev, A. Savinykh, D. Yemtsev, who died in July-August 1938 .
• Mass grave of 31 soldiers and officers of the 25th Army of the 1st Far Eastern Front of 1945 . ^[7] .
• “The nameless mass grave of pilots who died during the reflection of American bombers in 1950”, the list of monuments of the Khasansky district of Primorsky Krai is listed under number 106. ^{[8] [9] [10]}