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

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Marilyn Monroe poses for soldiers in Korea after a USO performance at the 3rd U.S. Inf. Div. area, February 17, 1954.

In February 1954, actress Marilyn Monroe traveled to Korea to entertain the troops. Right before she flew into Korea, Monroe was in Japan on her honeymoon with Joe DiMaggio. She flew alone to Korea as DiMaggio was still attending to business in Japan. In the four days Monroe spent with the troops she performed ten shows. She later said that performing in Korea helped her get over her fear of live performances as she entertained audiences that totalled more than 100,000 troops. She remarked that the trip “was the best thing that ever happened to me. I never felt like a star before in my heart. It was so wonderful to look down and see a fellow smiling at me.”

The troops greatly enjoyed her visit. Ted Sherman, who served in the Navy during World War II and Korea, recalled:

The movie star was at her glamorous best when she performed ten USO shows in four days for U.S. soldiers, airmen, Marines and sailors during the Korean War in early 1954.

I was with a group of Navy guys who happened to be at Daegu Air Force Base when we heard Marilyn would entertain there that night. We convinced our transport pilot to find something wrong with our R4D transport, so we could delay the return flight to our ship in Tokyo Bay for that one night.

It was a great evening for all the homesick guys who were dazzled by the movie star’s performance. The sight and sounds of Marilyn singing “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” is a memory I still cherish.

(Photo Credit: National Archives)

(Colorized by Tom Thounaojam from India)

 

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I don't know, but I would cut half of that photo leaving Gagarin only, it's my personal opinion

 

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I don't know, but I would cut half of that photo leaving Gagarin only, it's my personal opinion

Censoring history achieves nothing, future generation need to see the face of those who oppressed others in the past
to reminds them how ordinarily looking they are.

 

[NebrHogger]

Che got what he had coming.

 

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That's what I thought....that whole ship bottom fuselage thing was a dream

Seems like they copied the concept from the old flying boats. But those had a proper wing span to balance their fuselage.

 

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That's what I thought....that whole ship bottom fuselage thing was a dream

No..... but you can’t defy physics, it’s the opposite of your Lanny, all the weigh is up top, 2 engines, rotor, gearbox. The only weight down below is a few people and some fuel. So on a flat sea, you can land and stay afloat, on a rough sea, of course you would be swamped. We are talking 1960 tech at best. At least you would get time to launch your life raft. A very successful design, and still in service in many countries.

 

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Weary, exhausted Marine, Jesse D. Place, huddles against the bitter cold during the retreat from Chosin Reservoir, Korea, winter 1950.
Photographer David Douglas Duncan—Life Magazine

Duncan, recalls of one especially appalling battle in the winter of 1950.
"It was forty below zero during the retreat from Chosin Reservoir,” and the wind chill! The wind was barreling down from Manchuria and must have made it closer to fifty or sixty degrees below zero. It was so damn cold that my film was brittle — it just snapped, like a pretzel. But I managed to unload and load the camera under my gear and get some film in there, and I got some usable shots.”

(Jesse Place survived the rest of the war)

 

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Private John Rudd of the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment sitting at the roadside in a Korean village with his dog, which has been trained for guard duties. 1950/51

(Photo source - © IWM (BF 491)

 

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A machine-gun crew assigned to the 24th Infantry Regiment, one of the original Buffalo Soldier units, man a machine gun in Songimbong, South Korea, in February, 1951.

U.S. Army Center of Military History photo

 

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USS Missouri fires a salvo of 16-inch shells from turret # 2 while bombarding Chongjin, North Korea, in an effort to cut enemy communications, October 1950. Chongjin is only 39 miles from North Korea's northern border. This is a color-tinted version of a black & white original. The original photograph is Photo #: 80-G-421049. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.

 

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September 17th, 1982. HMS Invincible victorious return.

 

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Pvt. Dick L. Powell, of Findlay, Ohio, shares a meal with his puppy friend, 'Fuzzy', near the front in the 35th Regt, 25th Division area on March 12, 1951. Fuzzy first looks on hungrily before he digs in.

This photo may have been taken as the 25th Division participated in 'Operation Ripper' from March 7–April 4, 1951. The operation’s goal was to drive Communist forces out of Hongch’on and Ch’unch’on and to reach “Idaho,” – just below the 38th parallel in South Korea.

(Source - AP Photo/James Martenhoff)

(Colourised by Royston Leonard from the UK)

 

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Lt. J.J. Schneider, St. Louis, sits on the wing of a F-51 Mustang fighter plane of 18th FBG, 12th FBS with Capt. J.B. Hannon, right, from Omaha, Nebraska at an airfield in Korea (possibly Chinhae Air Base) on January 15, 1951.

Between them is ‘Admiration Dog,’ the mascot of their wing, who it was said, sometimes flew with the airmen.

Lt. Schneider had completed 100 missions in Korea since June 27 1950 (two days after the outbreak of the war). He was soon due to return to the U.S. and planned to wed Miss Betty Rosholm, who was ‘Miss Omaha of 1950’.

Capt. Hannon was shot down in World War 2 over Germany, and was also shot down over Korea but escaped capture.

(Source - AP Photo/Jim Pringle)

From the start of the Korean War, the Mustang once again proved useful. A substantial number of stored or in-service F-51Ds were shipped, via aircraft carriers, to the combat zone and were used by the USAF, and the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF). The F-51 was used for ground attack, fitted with rockets and bombs, and photo-reconnaissance, rather than being as interceptors or "pure" fighters. After the first North Korean invasion, USAF units were forced to fly from bases in Japan, and the F-51Ds, with their long range and endurance, could attack targets in Korea that short-ranged F-80 jets could not. Because of the vulnerable liquid cooling system, however, the F-51s sustained heavy losses to ground fire.

(Colourised by Doug)

 

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Major General Frank Lowe, presidential rep in Korea, examines "flash range" instruments on Marine front lines. Explaining is S.Sgt Charles Kitching, March 1951.

(Photographer - T.Sgt Vance Jobe/Marine Corps)

(Colourised by Royston Leonard)

 

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Korea: 38th Parallel 28 March 1954

AWM Description; "Even this British Centurion tank is vulnerable to certain forms of infantry attack. Protecting it against an "enemy" who would be intrepid enough to tackle the tank are Assault Pioneers, Corporal Jim Hyde of Red Hill, Qld (nearest camera), and Private L. D. (Snowy) Trenerud of King Island, Vic. Tanks of 5th Royal Tank Regiment cooperated with members of 3RAR in this battalion training exercise. The other soldiers around the tank are unidentified."

(Photo source - Australian War Memorial - HOBJ4919
Photographer - Phillip Oliver Hobson

(Colourised by Royston Leonard from the UK)

 

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Vietnam War

 

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M4A3E8 "Easy Eight" Sherman tank named "RICE'S RED DEVILS" - Nº61938 is stencilled on the side. 12 March 1951
(possibly the 89th Medium Tank Battalion at the Han River, Korea.)

A Medic gives Smallpox jabs to the tank crew.
There was a smallpox re-vaccination of front-line soldiers done at the height of the smallpox epidemic of Jan-April 1951, which occurred during a major US offensive.

March 1951 was in the midst of the great US counter-attack which began 7 March 1951, and ended in early April with Seoul liberated on 22March and the 38th parallel reached on 9 April.

(Colourised by Royston Leonard UK)

 

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Men of the Green Faces, US Navy Seals during the Vietnam War, Delta River Operations

 

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Unidentified Russian soldiers in the Afghan mountains, 1980s.

The Soviet–Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government for over nine years, throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside. The mujahideen were backed primarily by the United States, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United Kingdom making it a Cold War proxy war. Between 562,000 and 2,000,000 civilians were killed and millions of Afghans fled the country as refugees, mostly to Pakistan and Iran.

 

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“Commando Kivu,” a mercenary unit fighting Simba rebels in the area along the west side of Lake Kivu, just across from Rwanda, 1964.

The Simba rebellion of 1963–65, also known as the Orientale Revolt, was a rebellion in Congo-Léopoldville which took place within the wider context of the Congo Crisis and the Cold War. The rebellion, located in the east of the country, was led by the followers of Patrice Lumumba, who had been ousted from power in 1960 by Joseph Kasa-Vubu and Joseph-Désiré Mobutu and subsequently killed in January 1961 in Katanga. The rebellion was contemporaneous with the Kwilu Rebellion led by fellow Lumumbist Pierre Mulele in central Congo. The rebels were initially successful and captured much of eastern Congo, proclaiming a People's Republic in Stanleyville. However, the insurgency suffered from a lack of organization and coherence, as well as tensions between the rebel leadership and its international allies of the Eastern Bloc. When the Congolese government launched a number of major counter-offensives from late 1964, spearheaded by battle-hardened mercenaries and backed by Western powers, the rebels suffered several major defeats and disintegrated. By November 1965, the Simba rebellion was effectively defeated, though holdouts of the rebels continued their insurgency until the 1990s.