Figure 1.--Here in 'Bttle Hymn' Korean child refugee orphans scramble for food under the mess hall table. |
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IThe 1957 American film 'Battle Hymn' is about aa World war II pilot who becomes a minister and then rejoins the U.S Air Force (UAF) to help train Korean Air Force pilots at very start of the war. The film is based on a true story. Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for inadvertently bombing a German orphanage, decides he's a failure at preaching. He rehoins the USAF to train pilots early in the Korean War, he finds Korean orphans raiding the airbase garbage. With a pretty Korean teacher, he sets up an orphanage for them and others. But he finds that to protect his charges, he has to kill. The children he is caring for are children of Koreans fleeing south to escape the Communists and advancing Norrth Korean Army. Since the pilots were flying P-51s, it was very early in the war. The United sent to Korea the limited forces in Jpan. We see the desperetly hungary refugee orphans rummaging through the garbage cans at the air base and a boy scavenging a half eaten piece of bread found under one of tables for the pilots.
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