Camp Page

John Upshur Dennis Page (February 8, 1904 – December 11, 1950) was a United States Army officer from Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Other American servicemen who were honored at Camp Page for their ultimate sacrifice included Staff Sergeant Robert E. Quash, who died of a heart attack while with the First Battalion of the 42nd Artillery.

[4] "In 1964, 2nd Lt. William Ford, a recent graduate of the University of Oklahoma Army ROTC program, was headed to South Korea for his first assignment.

2nd Lt. William Ford poses with the Fourth Launcher Section, Battery B, 1st Missile Battalion, 42nd Artillery at Camp Page, South Korea in June 1965.

"US Officials said the three engine jet, a British Hawker Siddeley Trident, which resembles a Boeing 727, landed at Camp Page, an American military base near Chuncheon.

"When six Chinese defectors hijacked a domestic airliner to South Korea last week, they unwittingly initiated a breakthrough in Chinese-South Korean relations.

"[10] Commercial activities included a barbershop, convenience store, tailor, Class VI Post Exchange, burger bar, airline ticket office, pizza delivery.

Samples from all eight installations tested for ground water pollution revealed toxins that exceeded permissible levels, the newspaper reported... "Camp Page in the city of Chuncheon tops the list for oil leakage pollution among those bases," Kang Sung-min, chief aide to Korean National Assemblyman Kim Hyung-ju, told Stars and Stripes on Thursday.

"[13] "Levels of BTEX, a group of four chemicals that make up a large percentage of petroleum products, at Camp Page registered at 1,152 milligrams per kilogram of soil.

"The online edition of the magazine SisaIN reports that a retired US soldier who served at Camp Page in Chuncheon from 1972 to 1973 is claiming that in summer of 1972, there was an accident involving a nuclear tipped Honest John missile.

According to Dallas Snell, who also claimed Agent Orange was buried at Camp Page, his post-lunch R&R was disturbed one day when the base siren went off.

About 20—30 men and MPs, including Snell, gathered in the base's nuke silo, and were ordered to take defensive positions around a nuke-tipped Honest John.

"Last week, some retired American soldiers raised a second allegation that Agent Orange was buried at a former U.S. base, Camp Page, in Chuncheon.

"We will open a further investigation on suspicion that the defoliant was buried at Camp Page in Chuncheon," Vice Defense Minister Lee Yong-gul told reporters.

A memorial plaque to SSgt Robert E. Quash, who died at Camp Page, near Chuncheon, South Korea, on November 15, 1965. A tree was planted in his honor.
A/Sgt Reginald L. Alexander memorial plaque, USAG Camp Page, Chuncheon, South Korea
Chuncheon Mayor Yu Chong-Su , second from left, and 2nd ID commander Maj. Gen. George A. Higgins , right, attended Tuesday's ceremony to close Camp Page.