Two days before New York Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle went yard for one of the longest Major League home runs of all time—a 565-foot blast at the old Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C., the U.S. lost two anti-aircraft artillerymen to a "Bedtime Charlie" night attack by a North Korean aircraft on the island of Cho-Do in the Yellow Sea—on April 15, 1953. The plane was likely a low-flying, Soviet-made, wood-and-fabric Polikarpov-2 (P0-2) biplane, suggests the late Robert Futrell, a longtime…
