The two captains did not wear sidearms, as members of the Joint Security Area were limited to five armed officers and 30 armed enlisted personnel at a time.
On August 18, 1976, a group of five Korean Service Corps (KSC) personnel escorted by a UNC security team consisting of Captain Arthur Bonifas, his South Korean Army counterpart, Captain Kim, the platoon leader of the current platoon in the area ( First Lieutenant Mark Barrett), and 11 enlisted personnel, both American and South Korean, went into the JSA to prune the tree. The North Koreans said that the tree had been planted by their leader, Kim Il Sung. Bonifas was later one of the soldiers killed in the axe murders. Joint Security Force (JSF) company commander Captain Arthur Bonifas was then sent to force the North Koreans to stand down and to bring the Americans back to safety, and he did so successfully. On one occasion before the incident, North Korean soldiers had held a group of US troops at gunpoint. In the Joint Security Area, near the Bridge of No Return (across which the Military Demarcation Line runs), a 30-metre (98 ft) poplar tree blocked the line of sight between a United Nations Command (UNC) checkpoint and an observation post. The Military Demarcation Line was not enforced in the JSA prior to the incident. The layout of the Joint Security Area in 1976. This picture was taken early in the morning, before the North Koreans opened this checkpoint for the day. 4 across the Bridge of No Return, KPA No. Also visible in the picture (left to right) are KPA No.
5 from which the pictures of the axe murder were taken View from KPA No. The incident is also known alternatively as the hatchet incident, the poplar tree incident, and the tree trimming incident. North Korea then accepted responsibility for the earlier killings. Three days later, American and South Korean forces launched Operation Paul Bunyan, an operation that cut down the tree with a show of force to intimidate North Korea into backing down, which occurred. The US Army officers had been part of a work party cutting down a poplar tree in the JSA. 'Panmunjom axe murder incident') was the killing of two US Army officers, Captain Arthur Bonifas and First Lieutenant Mark Barrett, by North Korean soldiers on August 18, 1976, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Deliberately left standing after Operation Paul Bunyan, the stump was replaced by a monument in 1987.
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