Photos: Korean War 60th Anniversary
Posted Jun 17, 2010
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The war that began in Korea 60 years
ago, on June 25, 1950, a ghastly conflict that killed millions and left
- the peninsula in ruins, became “The Forgotten War” in many American
minds.
To a shrinking corps of aging men, however, the soldiers of Korea 1950-53, it
can never be forgotten. It damaged
many physically, scarred many mentally, and left men questioning their
commanders’ and their nation’s wisdom.
They fought many enemies – not
just the North Koreans and Chinese, but also the heat, the killing cold and
the cursed hills, the thirst, hunger and filth, the incompetence and hubris
of their own army, and
the indifference of an American homeland still fixed on the “good” war,
World War II, that had ended
five years earlier.
In a wartime arc of desperation, triumph, retreat and final stalemate in
Korea, no U.S. division sacrificed
as much as the 2nd Infantry Division, losing more than 7,000 killed,
one-fifth of total 36,516 U.S. dead. And it is
the 2nd Infantry Division that still stands guard over South Korea
today.
U.S. Marines help a wounded buddy on the Naktong River front in South Korea.
The war that began in Korea 60 years ago,
on June 25, 1950, a ghastly conflict that killed millions and left the
peninsula in ruins, became "The Forgotten War"
in many American minds. (AP Photo/Max Desfor) #
Prisoners are flushed out by a U.S. patrol operating in North korea south of
Kusong, Nov. 16, 1950. This is
a Life Magazine Photo by Hank Walker. (AP Photo) #
Two American soldiers line up a 3.5 rocket launcher bazooka along the
battlefront somewhere in Korea, July 24, 1950.
(AP Photo) #
American GIs fire a 105 Howitzer gun in action against North Korean invaders
somewhere in Korea. The war that began
in Korea 60 years ago, on June 25, 1950, a ghastly conflict that killed
millions and left the peninsula in ruins, became
"The Forgotten War" in many American minds. (AP Photo) #
U.S. Marines advance up a ridge in South Korea. The war that began in Korea
60 years ago, on June 25, 1950,
a ghastly conflict that killed millions and left the peninsula in ruins,
became "The Forgotten War" in many American minds.
(AP Photo/Max Desfor) #
Troops of the First U.S. Cavalry Division land ashore at Pohang on the east
coast of Korea during the Korean War.
This is the first combat amphibious operation since World War II. The war
that began in Korea 60 years ago, on
June 25, 1950, a ghastly conflict that killed millions and left the peninsula
in ruins, became "The Forgotten War"
in many American minds. (AP Photo) #
American soldiers leave the railroad station at Taejon, South Korea, en route
to the battle front. The war that began in Korea
60 years ago, on June 25, 1950, a ghastly conflict that killed millions and
left the peninsula in ruins, became
"The Forgotten War" in many American minds. (AP Photo) #
American soldiers are carried on the backs of other GI's from Heartbreak
Ridge through the rain to an aid station just
behind the front lines in South Korea during the Korean War. The 2nd
Division GI's, wounded in an ambush as
they came off the Ridge for a two-day rest, had spent two weeks in the line
during the height of the bloody battle
on the east central front. (AP Photo) #
Residents from Pyongyang, North Korea, and refugees from other areas crawl
perilously over shattered girders of
the city's bridge, as they flee south across the Taedong River to escape the
advance of Chinese Communist troops.
The Chinese entered the Korean War as allies of North Korea. U.S. troops
battled on the side of South Korea. Begun in
June 25, 1950, the war ended on July 27, 1953, with a military demarcation
line set near the 38th parallel where it started
. Korea remains divided. (AP Photo/Max Desfor) #
A U.S. Marine takes cover during fight against North Koreans in Korea. The
Marines were flushing out North Koreans
who had been harassing them with sniper attacks and mortar fire. The war
that began in Korea 60 years ago, on
June 25, 1950, a ghastly conflict that killed millions and left the peninsula
in ruins, became "The Forgotten War"
in many American minds. (AP Photo/James Martenhoff) #
Two U.S. 2nd Infantry Division soldiers use a screw-driver and bayonet tip as
they probe for mines on the road from
Changnyong to the Naktong River South of Taegu, South Korea. Guerrillas
hidden in the surrounding hills had planted
the mines during the night, blowing up two trucks and killing several
American soldiers. The war that began in Korea
60 years ago, on June 25, 1950, a ghastly conflict that killed millions and
left the peninsula in ruins, became
"The Forgotten War" in many American minds. (AP Photo/Jim Primgle) #
An American infantryman, his buddy killed in action in the Korean War, weeps
on the shoulder of another GI somewhere
in Korea, Aug. 28, 1950. Meanwhile, a corpsman, left, goes about the
business of filling out casualty tags.
No identifications available. (AP Photo/Al Chang) #
President Truman pins the Distinguished Service Medal with four oak leaf
clusters on the shirt of General Douglas
MacArthur during a ceremony at the airstrip on Wake Island, in this Oct. 14,
1950, file photo. In the center is John J.
Muccio, United States ambassador to Korea, who was decorated with a Medal of
Merit. According to a letter sent by
Muccio to the State Department, U.S. soldiers would fire on refugees if they
approached U.S. lines. The letter referred
to a policy set down on July 25, 1950, the night before members of the 7th
U.S. Cavalry began killing South Korean
refugees at the village of No Gun Ri. (AP Photo) #
Smoke rises over debris-littered streets as tanks lead U.N. forces in the
recapture of Seoul, Korea, Sept. 28, 1950.
(AP Photo/Max Desfor) #
A packed refugee train heads south through Seoul railroad yards as South
Koreans continue to flee from the capital during
the Korean War on Dec. 27, 1950. More than half of the city's 1,000,000
residents have left the capital, threatened by
massed Communist troops to the north, to seek safety in the southern part of
the peninsula. (AP Photo) #
No lack of fresh air in this Korean 'barbershop' near the northwestern front
on Dec. 31, 1950. Apprehensively awaiting
the touch of the icy clippers is Pfc. Joseph Tono of Dickson, Pa. The GI
performing the job is Tono's 8th Army Buddy,
Cpl. Russell Graff of Jefferson, Wis. (AP Photo) #
Cpl. Arthur Warrell, right foreground of New York City, and unidentified 25th
Division Buddy, left transport wounded
North Koreans on Sept. 1, 1950 whom they captured on the southwestern Korean
front to a hospital for treatment.
(AP Photo) #
This North Korean prisoner makes no bones about his joy at being captured
with a whole skin. The smiling red was
taken by U.S. Marines near Kimpo airfield north of Seoul on Sept. 22, 1950.
(AP Photo/Max Desfor ) #
United Nations troops fire from a barricade in Seoul, South Korea, in
September 1950. The building at left carries portraits
of Soviet leader Josef Stalin and North Korean leader Kim Il Sung. (AP
Photo/Max Desfor) #
American troops and some South Koreans are in a ditch along the road running
near the Naktong River in South Korea
on Sept. 19, 1950. Its known as the river road. They are in the ditch for
protection against enemy shells.
(AP Photo/Gene Herrick ) #
A South Korean military policeman marches a North Korean prisoner of war to a
stockade somewhere in South Korea
on July 21, 1950. (AP Photo) #
Gun crew of the 25th Infantry Division fire a 105 mm howitzer on North Korean
positions near Uirson, in Korea on
August 27, 1950. (AP Photo) #
U.S.military policeman searches Korean woman refugee for possible hidden
weapons on Naktong River beach in
South Korea on Sept. 27, 1950 after U.S. 24th Division drive across the
river west of Taegu. Among onlookers in
one youngster who obviously needs no search. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick) #
A U.S. Marine Marksman using a telescopic sight and with his Springfield
cocked and ready, waits for a troublesome
North Korean sniper to pop up so he can pick him off in Seoul, capital city
of South Korea on Sept. 28, 1950.
(AP Photo/Max Desfor #
A North Korean mother who fled to the fields keeps her children under wraps
as she tries to explain her problems to a U.S.
paratrooper who landed in the area near Sunchon, North Korea on Oct. 25,
1950 during operation to out off escape route of
fleeing Reds. (AP Photo/Max Desfor) #
Paratroopers of the United Nations forces jump from aircraft near the North
Korean towns of Sukchon and Sunchon,
about Oct. 20, 1950. (AP Photo/Max Desfor) #
Two children orphaned by the war are stranded in a ditch beside the body of
their dead mother on the road to Pyongyang,
North Korea, in Oct. 22 1950. British and Australian troops took the
children to safety. (AP Photo/Max Desfor) #
A blinding snowstorm in Korean waters halts flight operations aboard the
Aircraft Carrier Leyte on Dec. 16, 1950.
The planes are already loaded with bombs, rockets and 20mm projectiles and
were again in action a short time after
the storm ended. (AP Photo) #
Expressions reflecting the showy cold of North Korea, frostbite casualties of
First Marine Division and Seventh Infantry
Division who linked to break out of Communist encirclement in the Changjin
area, North Korea on Dec. 22, 1950, wait for
evacuation by plane. (AP Photo/DOD) #
A displaced family huddles for warmth between box cars in Sinmak, North
Korea, as Communist troops advanced
southward in December 1950. (AP Photo/Max Desfor) #
Marine Sgt. William T. Hathaway of Danville, Virginia, looks over the
wreckage of Hanjung, Korea, Dec. 20, 1950, before
the withdrawal from that city by U.N. forces now compressed into the Hungnam
beachhead in northeast Korea.
(AP Photo) #
A North Korean tankman lies dead on ground (lower left) amid knocked-out
tanks on August 13, 1950 in Indong, Korea,
North of Waegwan, after South Korean attack. (AP Photo) #
Four LST's unload men and equipment on beach in Inchon on Sept. 15, 1950.
Three of LST's shown are right to left:
LST-715, LST-845, and LST-611. (AP Photo) #
This homeless brother and sister make a vain attempt to keep warm near a
small fire in the Seoul Railroad Yards on
Dec. 29, 1950. (AP Photo) #
A US 25th Div. Inf. gets set to heave a grenade at enemy sniper hidden in a
village 20 miles north Taegu on Naktong River
front in Korea on August 29, 1950. (AP Photo) #
Weighted down with sundry items ranging from guns and trench shovels to a
radio set, Sgt. Derrick Deamer, left, and Pvt.
Clem Williams wear full battle gear as they chat on British sector of
Korea?s Naktong River front in South Korea on
Sept. 14, 1950. Both are with British forces fighting with United Nations?
troops against the Chinese Communist troops.
(AP Photo/GH) #
A bazooka team fires at enemy tanks near the front lines in the battle for
South Korea on July 5, 1950. (AP Photo) #
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander-in-chief of United Nations Forces, on the
bridge of the USS McKinley on his arrival
at Inchon Harbor in September, 1950. Standing left to right are: Vice
Admiral Arthur D. Strubble, Commander of the U.S.
Seventh Fleet; Brig. Gen. E.K. Wright, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3 Far
East command and Major Gen. Edward M. Almond,
Commanding General, 10th corps. (AP Photo) #
A navy Skyraider plane from the carrier Prince ton piloted by Lieut. Donald
Sparks of Alameda, Calif., starts a dive-bombing
run on a target during a navy air attack on Kowon, 22 miles northwest of
Wonsan on the Northeast coast of Korea,
Oct. 20, 1950 and the main railroad line to Hamhung to the north. (AP Photo)
#
Cpl. Clifford Rodgers, Muskogee, Okla., looks at bound wrist of a Korean
Civilians found in deep snow on Jan. 27, 1951
near Yangji, about 15 miles northwest of Ichon on the central front. The
atrocity victim, one of several found in the area,
presumably had been killed by reds retreating before allied advance. (AP
Photo/Max Desfor #
Republic of South Korea policemen come to the aid of an assemblyman (wearing
straw hat) being attacked by supporters
of President Syngman Rhee. The demonstrators, who were demanding that the
assembly give into Rhee or dissolve itself,
closed in on the law maker as he tried to leave the National Assembly Hall
in Pusan, June 28, 1952. (AP Photo/FW) #
Lt. Earl Hargroder (right), medical officer of the U.S. 38th Infantry
Regiment, administers blood plasma to Pvt. Eulogio
Santiago of Puerto Rico at a forward aid station in Korea on Sept. 11, 1952,
after he had been wounded by mortar fire
on a bunker on 'Old Baldy.' (AP Photo) #
An Army chaplain (foreground) gives comfort to a wounded GI while medical
corpsmen go about their business of taking
care of other wounded at an aid station near Triangle Hill in Korea where
these troops were hit on Oct. 19, 1952.
(AP Photo/ Fred Waters) #
Fifteen low-flying communist aircraft bombed the port city of Inchon, near
Seoul, June 20, 1953, the night of June 16th and
set off a giant fire with a hit on a fuel dump. Leaping flames from the
burning petroleum, oil and lubrication dump lighted
the sky for more that 20 miles. Fifth Air Force said the damage done by the
fire was undetermined so far. The firemen and
soldiers help in trying to douse the immense flame billowing into the dark
night sky. (AP Photo) #
A Korean waif sits in smoldering ruins of his home destroyed by fire in the
Suwon area on Feb. 3, 1951 as allied troops
burned dwellings which might provide shelter for red troops. Native water
jars are the only possessions recognizable
in ruins of other native homes in background. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle) #
Cpl. Robert V. Palmer, (Backsonville, Fla) of the 71st Sig Sv. BN, assigned
for Duty with the GHQ Photo lab and currently
serving as a combat photographer in Korea, Feb. 11, 1951. Photographs advance
at a point N.E. of Ultuni 30 miles Ne
of Wonju, Korea. (AP Photo) #
Although without the assistance of a Jewish Chaplain aboard their ship, the
men of Jewish faith aboard the aircraft carrier
USS Antietam are led in Sabbath services by Lieutenant (junior grade)
William Jasper, one of the Antietam?s dental officers,
March 20, 1952. (AP Photo) #
A Korean farmer heads home from the fields with his 'A frame' loaded with the
harvested rice on Oct. 20, 1953.
(AP Photo/George Sweers) #
A group of American GI's, part of the force which had just recaptured an
allied patrol base on the western front in Korea
on Sept. 18, 1951, display signs left by the fleeing Chinese, who gave up
the position to 1st cavalry division troopers.
Left to right are : Lieut. Albert E.Dru, Zelienople, pa; Pfc. William j.
Dunsdale, West Warwick, R.I.; l/c Dan W. rivers,
Franklin, Tenn.; Corp. Vernon P. Langford, Brookston, Ind.; Pfc. Paul M.
George, Gilmore City, Ia.; and Lieut. Dick Walther,
Pittsburgh, Pa. (AP Photo/Robert Schutz ) #
Men of the U.S. 7th Regiment, Third Division, plod along dusty Korean road
alongside lumbering tank during field
maneuver on Oct. 11, 1953. Although the fighting has halted, the United
Nations troops in Korea are continuing their
battle training. (AP Photo/Gene Smith) #
Korea war communist prisoner exchange non repatriates released, Jan. 20, 1954
the North Korean prisoners Load into
the flat cars which ill take them southward to the reception centers after
they came across from the DZ to the U.N.
Receiving point. (AP Photo/Sweers) #
A Korean, with an 'A'frame carrier strapped to his back, pauses on a Seoul,
Korea, street on Nov. 28, 1952 to read sign
posted in English and Korean in anticipation of a visit by President-elect
Dwight D. Eisenhower
. (AP Photo/George Sweers) #
The Korean Kids at the elementary school at Tongduch'on ni, set up by GIs
camped nearby in Korea on June 21, 1952,
are learning baseball as well as their abc's for a well-rounded education.
Sergeant Kenneth D. Henry, of Memphis,
Mo., and Sergeant Jess R. Adkins, of Peru, Indiana, are giving instruction
in the great American game to two of the older
students of the school. (AP Photo) #
An army corporal at Panmunjom took this picture in Korea on Oct. 8, 1952 as
the last jeep of the United Nations convoy
departed for Munsan, after Korean truce talks at Panmunjom had been recessed
indefinitely. Somebody had just put
the identifying sign on the rear of the jeep. The picture has just become
available on November 10, by air from
Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo) #
Three American Marines, left to right are: Pfc. Clarence Hara, Alumbank, Pa.;
Cpl. Jean Holland, Americus, Ga.; and Pfc.
Carl Toker, Mt. Wolf, Pa., destroy their bunkers on a forward observation
post on the western front preparatory to
withdrawal from the demilitarized zone under terms of the armistice in
Korea July 28, 1953. In background is
what was once no-man's land. (AP Photo/CLH) #
Apparently calling cadence, the North Korean Communist military policeman, at
right, stands to the side of the read leading
to the Panmunjom military armistice site on Oct. 28, 1951, as two armed
Communist military policeman march in single file.
Both, American and Communist military policemen spread about the Korean
neutral zone, keep their eyes open for possible
violations of the U.N.-Communists sire agreements. (AP Photo) #
ROK soldiers look back at their former positions as their truck moves
southward out of the demilitarized zone following
the truce agreement on July 30, 1953. (AP Photo) #
A line of soldiers on a United Nations patrol mission plod through deep snow
up a hill in the central front of Korea on Feb.
3, 1951. (AP Photo/Max Desfor ) #
A U.S. First Cavalry Division tank takes on the appearance of a Times Square
subway train at the rush hour as GI's pile
aboard, on March 14, 1951 for a ride across the Hongchon River near the
former Red supply base of Hongchon.
(AP Photo/Jim Pringle) #
Korean women weep as they identify bodies on Oct. 28, 1953. The army said the
victims were among political prisoners
killed by suffocation by the Communists outside Hambung, Korea. The Army
said the victims were forced into caves
which were then sealed off. (AP Photo) #
Half-frozen Thailand sailors wait on East Korean Beach in enemy territory as
a U.S. Navy helicopter takes off with injured
crewmen for rescue destroyer standing offshore on Jan. 21, 1951. The sailors
had waded ashore after their corvette
Prasae Ran aground on January. This is one of a series of Navy photos on the
rescue. (AP Photo) #
M/Sgt. Herman T. Claxton (left) of Nashville, Tenn. relaxes in his bed at the
Karatsu Seaside Hotel in Japan on Feb. 11,
1951 as T/Sgt. William E. Bell of Sumter, S.C., writes a letter home. (AP
Photo) #
Tanks, jeeps and U.S. Marines slog through mud and a creek as they move
forward against Chinese Communists on
the central Korean front north of Hoengsong on March 7, 1951. (AP
Photo/E.N.Johnson) #
With clothes, helmet and rifle at his side, Sgt. Harry Heldreth of 1387 Lake
View Road, Cleveland, Ohio, sunbathes on
an Imjin River beach in Korea not far behind the front lines, July 4, 1951.
(AP Photo/William Straeter) #
Even though 'Armistice' talks are in progress at Kaesong, the mission of the
3rd Air Rescue Squadron continues.
3rd Air Rescue Helicopter as it settles, gently to Korean soil to take on an
injured soldier being carried in a stretcher
by medics on July 7, 1951. In a matter of minutes this soldier will be
under the professional care of a medical officer
at one of the mobile army surgical hospitals at the rear. Two Korean Laborers
have stacked their 'A' frames to watch
the patient loaded into the helicopters capsules. More than 2300 lives have
been saved by Air Rescue personnel
who are serving the Far East Air Forces during the Korean War. This number
represents rescues made by all
the 3rd Rescue Aircraft. (AP Photo) #
The hatch is crowded with sunbathers, Sept. 15, 1951 'what else is there to
do.' (AP Photo) #
Holding their trousers high, marines ford a stream while on patrol in the
'Punchbowl Valley' area of the eastern front in Korea
on Sept. 5, 1951. The Marines encountered no resistance on the patrol and
United Nations troops gained control
of the area. (AP Photo/George Sweers) #
First tanks and troops of the First Cavalry Division enter shell-scarred city
of Chunchon after the last communist stronghold
on central Korean front fell on March 21, 1951. Walking in center of road
are (left to right): Maj. Gen. Charles D. Palmer,
commanding the First Cavalry; and Col. Marcel G. Grombez, Portland, Ore., a
regimental commander.
(AP Photo/Jim Pringle #
A 25th Division tank uses a flame thrower on an enemy pillbox deeply emplaced
in a hillside near Korea?s Han River front
on March 30, 1951. The scene is reminiscent of Pacific island warfare during
World War II. (AP Photo) #
A long, unbroken line of infantrymen heads south along a Korean highway on
the Western front on April 29, 1951 as Allies
pull back to new positions harassed by a Chinese counterattack. (AP
Photo/Richard Schutz ) #
Cpl. Robert M. Kessler of St. Louis, Mo., member of U.N. forces which fought
bitter battle with Reds in Chipyong sector
of Korea on Feb. 24, 1951, examines Chinese machine gun belt and other
ammunition and gear lying on ground.
(AP Photo/E.N. Johnson ) #
A mantle of fresh snow helps obscure parka-clad Allied infantrymen as they
approach Wonju in forced march on
the battered Korean city on Jan. 23, 1951. Allied forces advanced five miles
north of Wonju after an earlier withdrawal
from the see-saw rail hub. (AP Photo/Max Desfor ) #
United Nations troops in battle dress, carrying arms and ammunition, move
along dusty road 'somewhere in Korea'
on April 22, 1951. (AP Photo/James Martenhoff ) #
Members of the first loud speaker unit broadcast to the Chinese dug in on a
hill in Korea before the UN troops moved up.
(AP Photo) #
Paratroopers spill out of flying boxcars planes over Munsan sector in Korea
on March 23, 1951 in mass airdrop behind
enemy lines North of Seoul. Dwellings on ground still burning after
pre-invasion shelling. (AP Photo/James Martenhoff #
A British Churchill tank raises dust cloud as it shells the South Korean
capital from its position across the Han River
in Yondungpo, South Korea on Feb. 11, 1951. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle ) #
The confederate flag waves from top of pup tent of SFC Eugene L. Bursi, of
Memphis , Tenn., an artilleryman with
the 136th Field Artillery Battalion U.S. Eighth Army, in Korea on April 27,
1951. (AP Photo) #
This British Centurian tank resembles an Elephant drinking water as it rests
at a crazy angle, its gun barrel sticking into
a waterhole on a Korean roadside north of Seoul on June 22, 1951. Working to
salvage usable parts are Lance Corp.
Douglas Bone, left, of Basings, Hampshire, Eng., and Trooper Ronald Rodda,
Sunderland County, Durham, Eng.
(AP Photo/E.N. Johnson #
A navy corsair plane catches wingtip and crashes into the sea ahead of the
carrier USS Boxer in takeoff accident in the Sea
of Japan on May 22, 1951. The carrier altered its course to miss wreckage
and pilot, Lt. Oliver Droege of Kansas City, Mo.
, was rescued unhurt by helicopter. (AP Photo) #
Navy Pilot Lt. Oliver Droege (upper right) of Kansas City, Mo., swims away
from rapidly disintegrating wreckage of
his corsair fighter plane seconds after he had crashed into the Sea of Japan
during takeoff from the carrier USS Boxer
on May 22, 1951. A hovering helicopter picked him up unhurt within a
minute. (AP Photo) #
B-29 Superforts of War East Air Forces Bomber Command made daylight strikes
early in the Korean War against
Communist industrial targets. The Superfort is dropping incendiaries on a
North Korean factory in Korea on June 21, 1952.
In the two years of U.N. pounding of Communist targets, all strategic
targets have been knock out, and the big bombers are
now being until on night strikes against the enemy?s transport system. (AP
Photo) #
A Marine assault squad member uses a flame thrower to clean out an enemy
pillbox on Korea?s central front on May 7,
1951. Smoke from white phosphorus mortar shells shrouds the assault area to
mark the targets and mask the attack.
(AP Photo) #
GI's guarding an artillery outpost on Korea's west-central front on June 9,
1951 make sure the Chinese will know they are
facing U.S. soldiers . Standing guard under stars and stripes waving from a
carbine are, left to right: Pvt. William Jones,
Havre De Grace, Md.; Pfc. Roderick Fernandez, Laurelton, New York City; and
Pfc. James Garrick, Dickinson, Ala.
(AP Photo/Robert Schutz ) #
Sgt. Billy Barber, San Francisco, Calif., Pfc. Billy J. Hunt, Kansas City,
Mo., and Pfc. Joseph J. Doleys, Cleveland, O.,
left to right, all attached to the 25th infantry division, pool their
efforts as they prepare some hot food during a Lull in
the fighting against Chinese communist forces in Korea on Feb. 16, 1951. (AP
Photo) #
Their faces registering complete fatigue, Corp. Earl R. Baker, left, of
Norfolk, Va. and Sgt. Carl Holcumb, of Houston,
Texas, try to relax at the Chipyong area of Korea, Feb. 23, 1951. (AP
Photo/Jim Pringle) #
South Korean children turn out with flags to greet U.N. forces advancing
along the Han River front in South Korea on
March 7, 1951. (AP Photo) #
Leathernecks of the U.S. 1st marine division dig in at Paddy field in the
Vegas Hill sector of Korean western front on
March 26, 1953. At top a marine digs a foxhole for protection against
forthcoming mortar barrage while another (bottom)
uses natural ground contour for protection as he surveys the battleground in
front of him. (AP Photo/George Sweers ) #
American soldiers (foreground) dig in to set up a machine gun position on
side of ridge overlooking a vital supply road in
the central sector near Kumsong, Korea on July 20, 1953. In the background,
trucks and vehicles with men and
supplies prepare to move Northward in the area from which they had withdrawn
during heavy Chinese attacks.
(AP Photo/George Sweers) #
Pvt. Dick L. Powell, of Findlay, Ohio, and his friend 'Fuzzy' share a meal
near the front in 35th Reg, 25th Div area on March
12, 1951. 8-- Fuzzy looks on hungrily then 9 and 10 he digs in. (AP
Photo/James Martenhoff) #
Armed forces personnel stand at rest behind the flag draped caskets of the
first four of 57 Korean War casualties which
arrived here aboard the USS General Randall on March 21, 1951. The dead
included Maj. General Bryant E. Moore,
former commander of U.S. Ninth Corps. (AP Photo/RHH) #
Pfc. Merrill H. Small, of New Paltz, New York, enjoys a bath 'native style'
during break in action against Chinese
Communist forces in Korea on Jan. 23, 1951. He is a member of a Heavy Mortar
Co., 5th Cavalry regiment,
1st Cavalry Division. (A Photo) #
A knoll on the central Korea into an outdoor Barber shop in an undated photo,
during a lull in the fighting for three men
of the First Marine Division. 'In the chair,' Pfc. Richard J. West, Sioux
City, S.D., holds a canteen shaving mud as ?Barber?
Pfc. John J. Clements. Nederland, Texas, handles the neck trim. Waiting his
turn, Pfc. Robert I. Green, Gales Creek, Ore.,
leafs through an old magazine. (AP Photo) #
Lt. Ben Eubanks (left) of Atlanta, Ga., and Lt. Stanley Hyman from New
Rochelle, New York, sit at controls of a Fifth
Air Force B-26 invader of the 3rd Bomb Wing, and give the ship a pre-flight
check prior to taking off on a night-intruder
mission over enemy territory in Korea on June 14, 1951. (AP Photo) #
A jeep load of U.S. first cavalry division soldiers whose vehicle had stalled
in the Pukhan River on the central
Korean front on March 24, 1951 gets a welcome assist from tank comrades. (AP
Photo/Jim Pringle ) #
Litter bearers move up as infantrymen of the U.S. 24th division cross
foot-bridge over swollen stream on
the east central front in Korea on Sept. 15, 1951. Jeeps and trucks are
ferrying equipment and men across the stream.
(AP Photo/George Sweers) #
Three soldiers of Company G., 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division, swap their
combat boots for the new 'Mickey Mouse'
thermal boots at their installation 'somewhere in Korea' Nov. 22, 1952. The
new thermal boots are an improvement over
shoe-pacs issued last winter to troops in the Korean fighting. From left
are: Pfc. Claude J. Williams, Kansas City, Mo.;
M/Sgt. Charles E. Hawkins, of Havre de Grace, Md.; and Cpl. James E. Hobbs,
of Rushtown, Ohio. (AP Photo) #
A U.S.Soldier keeps a wary watch for enemy targets as he hugs a ridge on
Korea's east-central front on Jan. 26,
1951 during a fire fight with Communist guerrillas. Smoke rises from
hillside in background which is under marines?
mortar fire. Riflemen manning ridges looking north during firefight with
guerillas south of Chisondong.
(AP Photo/James Martenhoff) #
Members of a GI patrol set up their 75m recoilless rifle atop hill 419 on a
Korean warfront on Feb. 3,
1951 after their buddies had routed Chinese troops in a fire fight. (AP
Photo/Max Desfor ) #
Well-armed infantrymen move up hill in Wonju front sector, South Korea on
Jan. 13, 1951 as Allied forces launch
attack against enemy held hill in sub-zero temperatures. (AP Photo/James
Martenhoff) #
A bearded North Korean, with an American cigarette between gnarled fingers,
talks with gestures to a U.S.
Marine patrol on April 28, 1951 which flushed him out of the hills in North
Korea while advancing ahead of tanks.
He seems eager to tell his captors all he knows about the Chinese Communists
who were unleashing
their spring offensive. (AP Photo) #
His Helmet, rifle and ammunition belt mark spot where an unidentified U.S.
soldier was killed in battle on the Korean
front on June 24, 1951. (AP Photo) #
Cpl. Adan Perez, of Corpus Christi, Texas, ducks away from high inside pitch
in softball game on western front in Korea,
June 24, 1951. Catching is Lt. Paul Harkness of Clarksdale, Miss. Both are
members of a tank unit. (AP Photo) #
These leathernecks 'model' the Chareaux that will be de Rigeur in the Easter
Parade in Korea, March 21, 1952.
Members of the first marine division and their varying types of headgear.
From left to right are: M/Sgt. Spencer D. Gartz,
San Diego, Calif., in summer field cap; M/Sgt. Clayton Barrow, Lovell, Md. In
pile liner winter cap; S/Sgt. Allan Retasky,
Waukegan, Ill., in Korean fur cap; Sgt. John Sorobarczyk, Stockdale, Texas,
in helmet; and W/O Frank Renfrow,
camp Lejeune, S.C., in old-time campaign hat. (AP Photo/Fred Waters) #
Lt. J.J. Schneider, of 2535 Depts St., St. Louis, sits on wing of fighter
plane with Capt. J.B. Hannon, right,
7337 Douglas St., Omaha, Nebr., at an airfield in Korea on Jan. 15, 1951.
Between them is 'Admiration Dog,'
mascot of their wing, who flies with the airmen. Lt. Schneider has completed
100 missions in Korea since on June 27.
Two days after outbreak of the war. He will soon return to the U.S. and plans
to wed Miss Betty Rosholm, who was
'Miss Omaha of 1950'. Capt. Hannon was shot down in World War 2 over
Germany, and also was shot down over
Korea but escaped capture. (AP Photo/JJim Pringle #
Soldiers pull back along ridge somewhere near Seoul, Korea on Jan. 3, 1951.
(AP Photo) #
Five American GI's with the U.N. forces in Wonju-Chongju sector of Korean
fighting prepare a mortar for action on Jan. 20,
1951. Near the mortar on ground are Pfc. John S. Hagen, of Delavin, Wis.,
left, and Cpl. James E. Helvey, of Detroit, Mich.
Passing the ammunition to Hagen is Cpl. Frank G. Bickel, standing right, of
Pittsburgh, Pa., watching are
Pvt. James J. Cowell ,left, of Chicago, Ill., and Sgt. Henry Sprenger,
second from left, of Fergus Falls,
Minn. (AP Photo/MD) #
United Nations' troops carry a wounded buddy across muddy field 'somewhere in
Korea' on Feb. 25, 1951, to a waiting
helicopter which will transport the injured to an aid station behind the
lines. (AP Photo/ENJ) #
GI's use entrenching tools as they dig in Korean hilltop North of Seoul,
South Korean capital on Jan. 8, 1951.
A burning village in background sends up smoke pillar. From left are: Pfc.
Walter Madjarac, Cleveland, Ohio;
Pvt. Norman Wolak, Chicago, and Cpl. Chet Collett, of Troy, Ohio. (AP
Photo/ENH) #
A medical corpsman lies low to avoid enemy fire as he gives first aid to
wounded marine on a hilltop north
of Hoengsong on March 7, 1951. The Yank had received head wound moments
before from machine gun fire sweeping
nearby hillcrest. (AP Photo/John Randolph) #
Card game on the forward hatch on Sept. 15, 1951. From Left to right, around
circle are Sgt. Gerald C. Jurs, Hamlin,
New York; Cpl. Joseph M. Ferro, Bartlesville, Okla; Cpl. Cedric Smith,
Brookhaven, Miss; Sgt. James N. Howell, Pecos,
Texas and Cpl. Gordon W. Mehlenbacher of Hunt, New York, Sept. 15, 1951. #
Pfc. Ralph W. Barlow of Redondo Beach, Calif., displays a piece of shrapnel
that lodged in his armored vest during
front line action in Korea on March 30, 1952. The impact knocked Barlow to
the ground, but the vest was credited
with saving him from serious injury. (AP Photo) #
PFC Hurbert ' Murdoch, of 360 East 151st St. Bronx, New York, assistant to
Chaplain Antonellis, does his part in helping
the wounded as he holds plasma bottle (standing left) on Sept. 25, 1952 at
"Kelly Hill" Korean. Kneeling, holding tape is
Lt. Fouchs and at right (wearing helmet) is Chaplain Antonellis. (AP Photo)
#
Pfc. Frank S. Rymer, of Minneapolis, Minn., who was wounded on 1st Marine
Division patrol duty by an exploding nine only
15 minutes before armistice cease-fire in Korea, is treated at a forward aid
station on August 3, 1953. At left is
Hospital Corpsman Earl J. Jones, of Heflin, Ala. (AP Photo/Waters) #
First Division Marines push northward out of Hongchon on March 16, 1951,
along a winding road on the central
Korean front Allied troops were being stopped by Communists holding well
dug-in positions on hills northeast
of Hongchon an overlooking a vital road junction. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle) #
Air Force Cpl. Joseph P. Lany (right) of 639 main St. Torrington, Conn.,
scrubs Coo Jany Soo, 14-year-old Korean war
orphan, in Korea on March 26, 1952 as a Korean helper does likewise with
Soo's older brother, Sun,
who has been blind since birth. This is part of the program of the Fifth Air
Force's
839th Engineer Aviation Battalion to alleviate some of the suffering and
misery caused by the Korean War.
Korean orphans are rounded up from impromptu homes and are given medical
treatment, warm clothing and a good meal.
The battalion then arranges for their transportation to an orphanage
sponsored by the U.N. for unfortunate waifs.
Soo's parents were killed by the Reds more than a year ago as they attempted
to cross the lines and gain refuge
with UN forces. (AP Photo) #
A painting depicting Christ, The Prince of Peace, consoling a battle-weary
Marine, provides an appropriate background
in the Korean tent, Dec. 15, 1952 where Lt. Karl Ernst leads First Division
leathernecks in prayer.
The painting was executed by one of the marine in the outfit. Lt. Ernst, a
Protestant navy chaplain,
is from McLean, Texas. (AP Photo/FW) #
Pfc. James E. Barker, left, of Paterson, New Jersey and Pfc. Charles W.
Shaffner from Clearfield, Pa.,
both members of the U.S. Army's 7th Infantry Division, pass away the time by
playing cards during their spare time
near the front in Korea, June 5, 1951. (AP Photo) #
Pvt. Dudley Lufkin, Hollywood, Calif. looks over a series of 'Burma Shave'
type signs along a road
in the First Cavalry Division area of the Korean front on July 9, 1951. They
say, in series: 'Slow down, Joe.' (AP Photo) #
Pvt. Dudley Lufkin, Hollywood, Calif. looks over a series of 'Burma Shave'
type signs along a road in the First Cavalry
Division area of the Korean front on July 9, 1951. They say, in series: ? if
you're dead.? (AP Photo) # | | | | | | |