Photos US and South Korean Forces

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USS Missouri (BB-63) off Chongjin, North Korea, October 1950. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz has signed this photo.

 

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The USS Missouri is pictured firing her massive 16-inch guns at the South Korean port of Samcheok during the opening stages of the Korean War. The battleship had made an 11,000 mile dash to the battle area from Norfolk, Virginia, and used the bombardment to help divert attention from the troop landings at Incheon

USS Begor (APD-127) off the coast of Hungnam, Korea, during the demolition of UN facilities and the evacuation of UN troops following the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir.

 

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M24 Chaffee light tanks of the US Army's 25th Infantry Division wait for an assault of North Korean T-34/85 tanks behind a railway embankment at Masan, 1st Sept 1950

A column of troops and armor of the 1st Marine Division move through communist Chinese lines during their successful breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. The Marines were besieged when the Chinese entered the Korean War November 27, 1950, by sending 200,000 shock troops against Allied forces.

Marine's Pershing tanks scramble around the edge of burning Korean village lately occupied by Communists to get at an enemy tank delaying our advance. NARA FILE# : 127-GK-234A-A2241 4th Sept 1950

 

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USS Iowa bombarding communist positions off northern Korea, 10 Sep 1952

 

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USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) Grumman F9F-2 Panther fighters of Fighter Squadrons 111 and 112 (VF-111 & VF-112) parked on the flight deck, forward, during a snowstorm off the Korean coast, 15 November 1950.

 

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September 1951. Men from the 1st Marine Division rest up.

 

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U.S. Marines launch a 4.5 rocket barrage against the Chinese Communists in the Korean fighting. Ca. 1951. (Marine Corps)
Exact Date Shot Unknown NARA FILE #: 127-N-A156882

 

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Well now.. China has changed the history of the Korean War. They are claiming victory..from their point of view....

Exhibition commemorates victory 7 decades ago

An exhibition commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteers entering the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to join the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53) opened on Monday at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing.

www.chinadaily.com.cn

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Everyone tells how the party went, they can tell their fantasies, we have the truth ...

 

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USMC Sgt. Frank Praytor feeding a kitty aptly named Miss Hap. 1952,

Frank Praytor, the U.S. Marine who gained a level of fame after being photographed nursing a kitten during the Korean War, died on January 10, 2018 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was 90 years old and had been in poor health for several years.

The widely distributed photo of Praytor with the kitten would prove to be more that just an endearing moment of humanity captured in the midst of a brutal war, it would later save him from being court martialed.

While serving as a combat correspondent with the 1st Marine Division in Korea 1952, Praytor took two orphaned newborn kittens under his care. An internationally syndicated photograph of him using a medicine dropper to gently feed one of the kittens he had named “Mis Hap” appeared in 1,700 newspapers.

More with regards Sgt. Praytor - https://news.usni.org/2018/01/25/ko...to of a wounded,Navy corpsman won first place.

 

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Three ex-Communist guerrillas wearing North Korean Star on their caps, after being repatriated to the forces of Han Kyon Lok, Provincial chief of National Police & are now rounding up unsuspecting Communist guerrillas in the hills around this farmland.
Location:Cholla Poktuk, Korea (South)
Date taken:November 1952
Photographer:Margaret Bourke-White

 

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Chosin Reservoir is best remembered for the Marine Corps experience but on the eastern flank of the 1st Division another last stand occurred when Task Force Faith RCT-31 of the Army's 7th Infantry was nearly wiped out by Chinese forces with most of it's troops killed or captured. Here 2 men of that doomed group stand in the cold.

 

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Eisenhower on his visit to Korea Christmas 1952.

 

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Marines wearing WWII vintage camouflage uniforms in Korea.

 

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General MacArthur watches as the 1st Marines storm Inchon in September 1950, A man with a long career he started in WW1 as Chief of Staff for the US Army and before which at Veracruz Mexico then when WW2 broke out was in charge of the American garrison in the Philippines when Japanese forces invaded the island forcing him to flee and eventually returning in Fall 1944 after liberating the country.
When war between North and South Korea started he was given the command of all UN forces with the first battles against Communist troops successes although going beyond the original plan wanted to drive on towards the Chinese border prompting Mao Zedong to take action in response threatening to escalate tensions already raging resulting in his firing by Truman and replacement by Matthew Ridgeway.

 

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GIs of the 3rd Infantry Division and KATUSAS preparing for a night patrol in Korea.

 

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Korean War. c October 1950. Mortarmen from 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), shell North Korean positions with their 3-inch mortar. Photo by Private Ian Robertson. [AWM P01813.828]

 

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Marines of the 1st Marine Division move down the main line to Seoul.
Photographer: Sergeant Keating
Source: 5891316 from the National Archives

 

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Captain Ike Fenton sobs as his company runs out of ammo in Korea 1950.
Photo by David Douglas Duncan

 

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A surviving US soldier from an ambushed US convoy, surrendering to Chinese People's Volunteers. Korea, January 1951 (Getty Images)
Note: This photo was originally taken by Sovfoto, which was the USSR photo service for propganda purposes.