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

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a F5 in Vietnam people air force service with seen active role along side a37 and a1 and other capture American origin weapon in south west battle field aka Cambodia vs the Khmer rouge barbaric war criminal . the F5 and other American plane were out of service by the late 80s early 90s only uh1h are still in service ( cause we have hundred of them after the war so cannibalize them can keep the fleet working up till 2000s were we start to able to buy spare part for it from Australia and other country .

 

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K63-85 ( K= kieu > type in English ) but the soldier like to call it PT85 , firing it k54 12,7mm gun at night during Vietnam war , the best action pt 85 was during battle of cua viet in quang tri Vietnam in 1973 were a single pt8 manage to flank and destroy,knoch out 8 south Vietnam tank include m48 befor it self was destroy killing 2 crew member and critical wound 2 other crew member . the tank are still used and deploy on phu quoc island ( btw if you visit Vietnam , spend a few day in phu quoc nice beach + you wont need visa if you gona visit phu quoc only and not the mainland Vietnam , the island have high end resort to cheaper resort and hotel )

 

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Operation Danube - Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968.

 

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Têt Offensive, Battle of Hué, February 1968.

 

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Marines during the Korean War celebrate Thanksgiving. For many of the frontline troops, turkeys and all the traditional fixings were flown in by helicopters.

(Official Marine Corps Photo)

 

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Private J. Oates 'B' Company 1st Battalion Argyll and Highland Sutherlands, 27th Brigade getting ready to fire his Bren Gun at a sniper, with a blazing house in the background. (possibly at Chongju, 30 October 1950)

"The 1st Battalion led the advance on the 28th (Oct.) with its leading platoon mounted on tanks. The main opposition came from tanks, and this imposed long delays on the column, although the air gave all support that could be desired, frequently spotting and destroying tanks in the path of the Battalion. These delays made it impossible to reach Chongju in daylight, and the Battalion halted for the night about a mile away, and it was fortunate it did so as there turned out to be a strongly held and well-sited position defending the town. The following day 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3 RAR) encountered stubborn resistance, which took the greater part of the day to overcome, but by the evening all was set for the entry to Chongju, which was to take place the following morning, 30th October".

(Colourised by Royston Leonard from the UK)

 

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An engineer of the 16th Reconnaissance Company, US 1st Cavalry Division sets the fuses on a "Daisy Chain" of M7 light anti-tank mines, northwest of Yonchon, Korea 10 Nov 1951.

(Colourised by Doug)

 

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As the Australian flag hangs at half-mast, a bugler from the 67th Infantry Battalion plays the Last Post during the burial service for a dead Australian soldier at the British Commonwealth war Cemetery in Yokohama, Honshu, Japan, August 1948.

Original Photograph from Australian War Memorial.

 

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The last British Avro Lancaster in flying condition over Avro Vulcan B.2s of No 230 Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) based at RAF Finningley but on the Operational Readiness Platform at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire.

Image: © IWM RAF-T 8296

 

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The Polish Navy destroyer ORP Błyskawica, 1961.

 

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A US Marine Corps Vought F4U-4B Corsair of Marine Fighter Squadron 214 (VMF-214) "Black Sheep" receives final checks to its armament of bombs and 5-inch rockets, just prior to being catapulted from the Escort Carrier USS Sicily (CVE-118) for a strike on enemy forces in Korea. The original photograph is dated 16 November 1950, but was probably taken in August - October 1950.

USS Sicily
The invasion of South Korea by the North Koreans, on 25 June, caused a radical change in her operating plans. Sicily was notified on 2 July that she was needed in the Far East; and she sailed, two days later, for the first of three deployments to Korean waters. Sicily was designated flagship of Carrier Division (CarDiv) 15 and on 3 August launched aircraft of VMF-214 on their first air strike in support of Allied ground forces. During this tour, she supported ground operations at Pohang, the Inchon landing, the advance to Seoul, and the withdrawal of the marines from the Chosin Reservoir to Hungnam before returning to San Diego on 5 February 1951. On her second tour with the 7th Fleet, from 13 May to 12 October 1951, Sicily operated on both the east and west coast of Korea. Her last tour during the Korean War was from 8 May to 4 December 1952, and she served with the United Nations Escort and Blockading Force. Sicily was deployed to the Far East again from 14 July 1953 to 25 February 1954.

(Source - USN Official US Navy photo 80-G-419 929)

(Colourised by Royston Leonard from the UK)

 

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A Landing Signal Officer (LSO) waves an F4U-4B Corsair of Fighter Squadron (VF) 53 aboard the carrier Essex (CV 9) off Korea 1950.

(Robert L. Lawson Collection, National Aviation Museum)

 

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US Navy Corsair fighters of VF-114 'Executioners' prepare to take off from the deck of the USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) of Navy Task Force 77, operating off the southwest coast of Korea in 1951/52.

 

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"BROTHERS IN ARMS - When a Royal Australian Navy aircraft was forced down at a Marine airbase in Korea, the Leatherneck mechanics turned to help the pilot get his ship back into the air. Shown here, several mechanics swarm over the machine as curious onlookers stand by."

US Marine Corps mechanics service a Royal Navy Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 (s/n WE790). According to the original caption this was a Royal Australian Navy aircraft. RAN 805 and 808 Squadrons operated from the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney (R17) off Korea between 4 October 1951 and 27 January 1952. In the background is a Vought F4U-4 Corsair. Unusual is the lack of any tail code on either aircraft. Circa 1951.

Text accompanying image via Wiki Commons
photographer: TSgt. Ralph Austin, USMC

(Colourised by Benjamin Thomas from Australia)

 

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A Marine radios as his two brothers watch out for the enemy. Dong Ba gate and tower, part of the eastern outer walls surrounding the Citadel tower over them. U.S. Marines have been battling VC and NVA house by house, street by street in a bloody effort to retake the former capital of Vietnam and its Citadel.

 

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Marines from Mike Company, 3/9 (3d Battalion 9th Marines) patrol through the dense jungle near the DMZ 1968.

Photographer- 2lt Robert l. Drieslein.
(2d Platoon, Mike Co, 3/9)
photosource- Robert l.Drieslein Collection
(Coll/5643) Archives Branch, USMC History Div.

 

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21 November 1967.

PFC Fred L. Greenleaf, Company "C", 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry, 199th Light Infantry Brigade, crosses a leach infested irrigation canal along with other members of the company.
After making a helicopter assault, the company moved towards a Viet Cong controlled village.
This was a search and destroy mission within Operation "Rang Dong" near Cat Lai, Republic of Vietnam.
PhotoSource- NARA 111-CCV-413
Photographer- SP5 Robert C. Lafoon.
Dept of Army Special Photo Office(DASPO)

 

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The Third Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ( 3 Para) in the Falklands.
Sgt Chris Howard, Corporal Bert Oliver(with Milan post) Anti-tank Platoon, Support Company, prepare to move off Mount Longdon,
14 June 1982.

photographer- © Sgt Graham Colbeck
( Front cover photograph of the book; With 3 Para To The Falklands by Graham Colbeck)

 

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Men of the 1st Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment have a smoke while waiting for dusk to fall before joining a patrol into no-man's land at the Hook, near Kaesong. June 1953.

Also note within photograph there is a KATCOM ( Korean Augmentation Troops Commonwealth) from May 1952 Korean troops were included within Commonwealth units as replacements to make up numbers during periods of troop rotations.
The soldiers were given standard 16 week training at ROKA(US) training centre with further specialist training on British/Commonwealth weaponry.
On average each British Battalion recieved 94 Katcoms averaging 2 per section (squad).
Australians and Canadians 100 per Battalion.
making a total of 1000 across 1st Commonwealth Division.
All Soldiers wear the USMC M52 fragmentation vest
photosource-IWM © BF 11048
Ministry of Defence Official Collection.
Photographer- Unknown.

 

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Korea, 18 August 1950.

Captian Francis "Ike" Fenton,B Company Commander, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines
( 1st provisional Marine Brigade)
Obong-Ni Ridge, Pusan perimeter.
Throughout the night of August 17-18, masses of NKPA troops counterattacked to regain the key
terrain that the Marines had seized and now held.
Fenton's Marines held the ridge,but they paid a stiff price. On August 17,B Company had gone into the line with five officers and 190 men;
24 hours later,Fenton was the only officer left,
and just 88 of the company's Marines remained combat effective (and many of those were "walking wounded" who refused medical evacuation.
Shortly after the fight for Obong-Ni, famed photojournalist David Douglas Duncan visited
Captian Fenton's company, which was still holding the line.
Duncan took a haunting photograph of the physically exhausted and emotionally drained Fenton the moment he was told his First Sergeant was mortally wounded and his men were low on ammunition.
Photosource-Life magazine/Harry Ransom Center.
Photographer- David Douglas Duncan.