Photos From Korea to the Falkland Islands - colourised images of conflicts after World War II.

[Conhoon]

Two Douglas A-4C Skyhawk of Attack Squadron 146 (VA-146) "Blue Diamonds" fly past the anti-submarine aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge (CVS-33).

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VA-146 was deployed as part of Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) on board the USS Constellation (CVA-64) to the Western Pacific and Vietnam from 5 May 1964 to 1 February 1965. Planes of CVW-14 took part in the August 1964 strikes against North Vietnamese PT-boat bases as a result of the Tonkin Gulf Incident. One of the aircraft in the photo was later converted to the A-4L standard and in 1982 sold to Malaysia as a A-4PTM.

 

[Conhoon]

Three F9F-2 Panthers of Fighter Squadron 721, fly over the carrier USS 'Boxer' (CV-21) underway off Korea ca. August 1951

 

[Conhoon]

Captain John Herschel Glenn Jr., USMCR, fighter pilot of VMF-311, examines some of the 714 holes in his Grumman F9F-2 'Panther'.

Captain Glenn flew 63 combat missions with VMF-311. He was promoted to the rank of Major, 28 June 1952. He served as an exchange officer with the U.S. Air Force, flying a North American Aviation F-86F Sabre with the 25th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 51st Fighter Interceptor Wing at K-13, an air base at Suwon, Republic of Korea. In July 1953, Glenn shot down three enemy Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 15 jet fighters.

John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016)

(Photo source U.S. Air Force)

 

[Conhoon]

8 January 1967.

An exhausted soldier takes a break inside a M113 Armored Personnel Carrier.

Earlier the Soldier and other members of his company performed a search and destroy mission on foot through dense forest in excruciating heat.
The Soldier was one of many from "C" Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Mechanized Infantry, 25th Infantry Division participating in Operation "Cedar Falls".
The company was operating in and around the Filhol Plantation near Cu Chi,
Republic of Vietnam.

Photosource- 111-CCV-345-CC37978.
Photographer- SP4 Robert C. Lafoon.

 

[Conhoon]

On the morning of Sunday 13th June 1982 after the Battle for Mount Longdon during operation Corporate, the Falklands campaign,
Sgt Chris Howard from Anti-Tank Platoon 3rd Bn The Parachute Regiment (3 PARA) fires a captured Browning .50 Cal Heavy Machine Gun .

Photographer- Sgt Graham Colbeck.

 

[Conhoon]

'Battle of Mount Longdon'

The Battle of Mount Longdon was an engagement of the Falklands War between British and Argentine forces, which took place on 11–12 June 1982, resulting in the British victory and their occupation of a key position around the besieged Argentine garrison.

The British force consisted of Third Battalion, the Parachute Regiment (3 PARA) under Lieutenant Colonel Hew Pike with artillery support from six 105 mm light guns of 29 Commando Regiment, Royal Artillery; Second Battalion, the Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) were in reserve. Naval gunfire support was provided by HMS Avenger's 4.5-in gun.

The Argentine force consisted of B Company of the 7th Infantry Regiment (RI 7) of the 10th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, as well as detachments from other units. The 7th Infantry Regiment, reinforced by two Marine Infantry platoons, held Mount Longdon, Wireless Ridge to the northwest of the capital of the islands, Port Stanley and to their east, Cortley Ridge. Marine Teniente de Navío (naval rank equivalent to army captain) Sergio Andrés Dachary had arrived at Mount Longdon in the week preceding the battle, and was on hand to control the Marine-manned heavy machine-guns and sniper teams there.

The battle and the immediate Argentine covering fire that followed lasted twelve hours and had been costly to both sides. 3 PARA lost seventeen killed during the battle; one Royal Engineer attached to 3 PARA also died. Two of the 3 PARA dead – Privates Ian Scrivens and Jason Burt – were only seventeen years old, and Private Neil Grose was killed on his 18th birthday. A total of forty British paratroopers were wounded during the battle. A further four Paras and one REME craftsman were killed and seven Paratroopers were wounded in the two-day shelling that followed that was directed by Sub-Lieutenant Marcelo de Marco of the 5th Marines on Tumbledown Mountain. The Argentines suffered 31 dead and 120 wounded, with 50 also being taken prisoner.

The 3rd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment won numerous decorations for this action:
One Victoria Cross (Sergeant Ian McKay) †
One Distinguished Service Order (Lieutenant-Colonel Hew Pike)
Two Military Crosses (Majors Mike Argue and David Collett)
Two Distinguished Conduct Medals (Colour Sergeant Brian Faulkner and Sergeant John Pettinger)
Three Military Medals (Sergeant Des Fuller, Corporal Ian Bailey, and Private Richard Absolon)
Numerous Mentioned in Despatches

Colourised by Paul Reynolds

 

[Conhoon]

March 1968, Nui Dat, Phuoc Tuy Province, Republic of Vietnam.

E Troop, 2nd Squadron, Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) L/CPL Paul Duffy ( Brixworth, Northants, England) Lieutenant Commander Rowley Waddell-Wood ( Royal Australian Navy attached to 9th Squadron RAAF) and Trooper Anthony Bowden ( Carlton, Victoria, Australia) walking to UH-1H Iroquois helicopter of 9th SQN RAAF.

Photographer-Bob Coveney (190th AHC)

 

[BravoZulu]

USS Midway (CV-41) steaming off the Firth of Clyde, Scotland (UK), prior to "Operation Mainbrace" exercises, September 1952. Douglas AD-4 Skyraider, Vought F4U-4 Corsair, and Grumman F9F-2 Panther aircraft from Carrier Air Group 6 (CVG-6) are spotted on her flight deck.

 

[BravoZulu]

U.S. troops of the 7th and 9th divisions wade through marshland during a joint operation on South Vietnam's Mekong Delta, in April of 1967.

Rick Holmes of C company, 2nd battalion, 503rd infantry, 173rd airborne brigade, sits down on January 3, 1966, in Vietnam

A man brews tea while a U.S. Marine examines a pinup in Vietnam in September of 1967.

 

[BravoZulu]

The singing group the "Korean Kittens" appear on stage at Cu Chi, Vietnam, during the Bob Hope USO Christmas show, to entertain U.S. troops of the 25th Infantry Division.

A napalm strike erupts in a fireball near U.S. troops on patrol in South Vietnam in 1966

Left: Pilot Leslie R. Leavoy in flight with other jets in the background above Vietnam in 1966. Right: Army nurse 2nd Lieutenant Roberta “Bertie” Steele in South Vietnam, on February 9, 1966

 

[BravoZulu]

In Berkeley-Oakland City, California, demonstrators march against the war in Vietnam in December of 1965

General William Westmoreland talks with troops of first battalion, 16th regiment of 2nd brigade of U.S. First Division at their positions near Bien Hoa in Vietnam, in 1965

 

[Conhoon]

20 May 1966.

Soldiers of Company "B" 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, look for signs of the Viet-Cong as they search a deserted farmhouse in the Xa Ba Phuac Province area during Operation " Wahiawa"( 16 -30 May) a search and destroy mission conducted by the 25th Infantry Division.
photosource-Nara 111-CCV-410-CC34609
photographer- SFC James K.F.Dung.(DASPO)

 

[Conhoon]

24 April,1967.

Operation "Oregon" a search and destroy mission conducted by an Infantry platoon of Troop B, 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 9th Cavalry,1st Cavalry Division ( Airmobile), three kilometres west of Duc Pho, Quang Ngai Province. An Infantryman is lowered into a suspected V.C tunnel by members of the Reconnaissance Platoon.

photosource- (NARA-111-CCV-537-CC39781)
Photographer- SSG Howard C. Breedlove.

 

[Conhoon]

17 January 1966.

L/CPL Henry Williams((1st Bn 3d USMC, Ferndale, New York) takes time out to rescue a kitten found in a village that had been bombed moments before by the US Air Force in preparation for attacks on Ben Dau, 15 miles Southwest of Danang Air base,South Vietnam.

AP Photo
Photographer- Eddie Adams

 

[Conhoon]

Dutch Marines reconnaissance patrol run through a burning village in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies on June 22, 1946.

Starting in 1943, the United States Marine Corps trained and equipped a new brigade, the Mariniersbrigade, of the Korps Mariniers at Camp Lejeune and Camp Davis in North Carolina in preparation for amphibious landings against the Japanese in the Dutch East Indies. The Japanese surrendered before such landings were needed, but the Mariniersbrigade, fully trained and equipped, sent to Dutch East Indies to restore "order, peace, and security"
In total, the American-style Dutch Brigade would reach a strength of about 4,000 freshmen from the United States.
Original : (NIMH Collection)

 

[Conhoon]

A shirtless French sergeant of the 1st BPVN (Vietnamese Parachute Battalion) armed with a US rifle M1A1 (with folding butt) pictured during the sabotage of the machine tools of a clandestine arms factory in Tay Ninh area, April 1952

 

[Conhoon]

"D" Company, 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, Vietnam War.

PRC 25 radios with M-16 rifles.
Boonie caps were standard issue with the Australians.

 

[Conhoon]

Private F.W Duyn of the NDVN (Netherlands Detachments United Nations) carrying "a live emergency ration" on his shoulder during the Second Battle of Wonju that take place between 6 and 15 January 1951.

(Original photograph by Wim Dussel, NIMH Collection Koreaanse Oorlog)

 

[Connaught Ranger]

"D" Company, 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, Vietnam War.

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PRC 25 radios with M-16 rifles.
Boonie caps were standard issue with the Australians.

Some info with regards the ANPRC-25 can be found here - https://www.n6cc.com/prc-25-radio

 

[Willie King]

This particular image is of Corporal Willie King from the 16th Aviation Group photographed outside of Chu Lai, Vietnam, January, 27, 1970. Where the Army was now using the base after the US Marine Corps had departed that same year.

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Corporal King has a pretty interesting story. King enlisted into the US Army in June of 1968, volunteering for Airborne & Pathfinder School. Attending AIT at Fort McClellan, then being deployed to Vietnam in March of 1969. Where he would arrive at Cam Ranh Bay when the US base was being attacked by mortars. When he arrived in Vietnam, King was originally assigned to the 4th Infantry Division as a pathfinder. At the time was actually the only African American pathfinder in the entire division, while in country at the time.

Towards the end of his time in the Army he would earn the Bronze Star for assisting in recovery of a helicopter that was shot down along the Cambodian Border. In May of 1970 when the US launched the incursion to Cambodia, King was one of the many American servicemen that took part in the incursion. This time being assigned to 3rd Battalion, 506th Infantry.

During the incursion King was responsible for an LZ coordinating aircraft, coming in and out. During this he eventually had to egress after being cut off from friendly forces during the engagement around the LZ.

Towards his final time in Vietnam he would be assigned to the 173rd Airborne for the remainder. Eventually returning home while escorting a fallen friend back stateside. He was discharged in June of 1971. Many years later King would later be interviewed in July 23, 2019 where he gave a more detailed account. Which can be found on West Point's Center for Oral History.

War Is Hell.